- From: David Saff <saff@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:19:08 -0500
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- CC: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
All, Thank you very much to everyone who responded. Forgive me for addressing all points raised at once. With luck, it will read faster than an Oscar acceptance speech... Charlie Abela wrote: > This is an interesting idea, what worries me is the idea of > "enabling automated inference about how to assemble components to > produce a solution to a stated goal". > Would you explain this statement, this has a lot of hidden issues? Charlie, thank you for asking the question. Certainly I have no desire to worry anyone. :) For more information about the goals of my project, please visit http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/Software.html, and scroll down to Approach/Specifications. As you can see, one of the goals is to support the downloading and installation of communicating software modules to multiple local devices. In order to do this, it must be necessary for a system service to: 1) Reason about whether the user's goals can be accomplished using the components currently installed. 2) Identify any currently uninstalled modules that must be installed. 3) Assemble the resulting collection of modules to create a complete solution to the stated goal. This is in addition to the needs addressed by some Web Services initiatives, which include the discovery and invocation of services that remain remote. Thus, we are not in the enviable position of having an HTTP layer that separates us from the operational needs of the component, including computational resources, software platform, and required collaborating components. However, we do not want to overlook the work done on interfaces for Web Services already. Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > [snip] > There are some folks at MIT intersted in describing Web services in RDF - > [snip] > Sandro Hawke or Eric Prud'hommeaux might be able to tell you > more about this. Charles, thank you for the names. I hope to get in contact with them soon. > I also hope to have a student working with me this northern summer on a > similar project to yours, for the purpose of describing security monitoring > components. Not sure when the "northern summer" starts, :) but please have your student get in touch with me then, and we'll talk about possible overlaps in concerns. Pasqualino Assini wrote: > we have been successfully using RDF to describe software components > interfaces for more than two years in our Nesstar system. Pasqualino, thank you for the link, and a very natural map for method signatures. Mark Baker wrote: > I suppose my "RestRDF" thought experiment could be considered related, > with Web resources being distributed components exposing a common > application interface. Mark, thank you for introducing me to REST. I must say that it's a very catchy idea. Based on my further elaboration above, what do you think are the places that REST can best inform our endeavors? Thanks again to all, David Saff
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