On Jun 16, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Mark Baker wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:56:44PM -0400, Marc Hadley wrote: > >>> But the code that a human would write to support Atom as a library >>> (e.g. http://www.howdev.com/technologies/), would already provide an >>> API analogous to the one you describe there. >>> >>> >> Indeed, Atom is a bad example since its likely that folks will want >> to write custom libraries for most programming languages to support >> the format and protocol. Is that the case for all web applications >> though... >> > > I don't doubt that there might be exceptions, but I'm confident it's > the general case, yes. > If you are correct and folks write custom libraries for all web applications for a variety of common programming languages then I'd agree with you: we don't need a web application description language and we can all go do something else instead. But, FWIW, I'm not convinced that this will happen and hence think that a standard format for describing such applications has some potential utility. > Phew, I'm glad I got my point across. I was having www-ws-arch > flashbacks for a moment there. 8-) Thanks for hearing me out on this > complex issue. > I was perhaps fortunate to miss out on the www-ws-arch discussions. Cheers, Marc. --- Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com> Business Alliances, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.
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