Applications Messaging Standard

[Mark Taylor]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Doug Tody wrote:

> Hi Mark -
>
> I think we are actually saying the same thing.  If we define a
> standard inter-tool messaging protocol and implement it on top of,
> e.g., D-Bus, you client does not talk directly to D-Bus, it talks to
> an implmentation of the defined messaging standard which just happens
> to use D-Bus, MPI, Ice, or whatever internally.  It is not a compliant
> implementation unless a standard interface is presented which isolates
> the client from the underlying messaging infrastructure used.

good, I'm quite happy with that.  In that case I don't think there's
much call for discussion here about what underlying messaging 
infrastructure is used, since as you say that's a matter for the 
implementations.  What we need to get straight is what the 
client-facing interface should look like.

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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