Apps Messaging Manifesto

[Isa Barbarisi]

Mark Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, John Taylor wrote:
>
>> 1) A simple solution which does the right thing nearly all the time 
>> is better than a complicated one which does the right thing all the 
>> time.
>>
>> 2) The design of the messaging system (and messages) should place a 
>> low burden on authors who wish to make their applications compliant.
>>
>> 3) We don't have all the answers up front, and our goal should be to 
>> get software out into the community quickly so that we can get 
>> feedback to refine our ideas.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> With regard to 3), I'd be interested in hearing from people which 
>> applications they intend to modify to use the messaging protocol.  
>> Authors who are actively working on software that tracks the standard 
>> are the ones who will be best placed to discover flaws and 
>> improvements to it and effect changes.   As for myself, I intend to 
>> provide a Java module for the Workbench that will serve as a Hub, and 
>> a Java library to make life easier for clients. In particular, I 
>> intend to maintain an applet that allows data centres to create 
>> messaging-enabled web pages.  If time allows I will also provide a 
>> Python client.
>
> I will hope to keep TOPCAT and SPLAT on top of developments, and 
> STILTS if appropriate.  I'd like to do the same with GAIA,
> but Tcl is much harder work (at least for me) than Java, so whether 
> this is feasible depends a bit on how complicated, and
> how different from PLASTIC, anything we agree on turns out to be.
>
> anyone else?

I will try to get VOSpec updated as well, if I manage to finish reading 
this mailing list ;-)

Isa


>
> Mark
>

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