Applications Messaging Standard

[Tony Linde]

> 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...?

Err no, none of the above. I was saying hub should be detached, not embedded
and it *might* be started any of three ways:
> > autostarted
> > at boot, manually started by user or kicked off by first app to  
> > require it.

T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alasdair Allan [mailto:aa at astro.ex.ac.uk] 
> Sent: 13 February 2007 12:28
> To: apps at ivoa.net
> Cc: Tony Linde
> Subject: Re: Applications Messaging Standard
> 
> 
> 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.
>