- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:15:12 -0400
- To: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM>
- Cc: public-web-http-desc@w3.org
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. 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. Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
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