- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:06:55 -0500 (EST)
- To: rsalz@zolera.com (Rich Salz)
- Cc: skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Williams Stuart), xml-dist-app@w3.org
> > > Absolutely true. The wonderful thing about the Web is that this is done > > *with* the Web. It can describe itself. RPC cannot. > > I disagree. Adding RDF to the web and saying it's reflexive seems no > different from adding DII to Corba, IDispatch to COM, etc. I don't know about IDispatch, but IIRC, DII did not reify interfaces as first class objects (i.e. they didn't get OIDs). Also, while that's necessary, it's not sufficient. What's also needed is a uniform means of resolving an identifer. Neither CORBA nor COM has that, but the Web has GET. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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