Applications Messaging Standard

[Alasdair Allan]

Tony Linde wrote:
> Phew. This thread was starting to get complicated. Glad everyone  
> now seems
> to agree with Doug, Paul etc that we need to keep this thing simple.

I think everyone agrees that we need to keep things simple, I think  
the debate is about how simple we should get. As usual I think I'm  
going to be advocating a level of simplicity for a first cut at the  
standard at a level some people will inevitably find unacceptable. Oh  
well...

> Perhaps, even, to obviate the problems John raises we mandate that  
> the hub
> is detached and startable via some mandated process which can be  
> autostarted
> at boot, manually started by user or kicked off by first app to  
> require it.

That said, I'm not sure we really want to go around mandating things  
like how hubs are started. What if I'm running a compliant app and I  
don't want it to start a Hub... surely we can't mandate that to  
support the standard such a app must start a hub. Also, wouldn't that  
mean that every client author has to include a Hub implementation in  
with their app? I'm not sure that'll be greeted with much joy...?

Cheers,
Al.