Applications Messaging Standard

Doug Tody dtody at nrao.edu
Thu Feb 8 10:18:16 PST 2007


On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, John Taylor wrote:

> On 8 Feb 2007, at 17:42, Doug Tody wrote:
>> The point is not to "support" all the mentioned messaging technologies,
>> but rather to define a simple messaging protocol which is sufficiently
>> independent of implementation to be possible to implement on top of
>> any sufficiently general messaging infrastructure.
>
> So if I understand this correctly, you want to abstract out the operations 
> and semantics that are needed.  For instance (to take PLASTIC is an example), 
> we have the operations
>
> register
> request
> requestAsynch
> getRegisteredIds
> .....
>
>
> and these operations are independent of whatever wire protocol sits 
> underneath?

Exactly, yes.

 	- Doug



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