Applications Messaging Standard

[Tony Linde]

> BTW, scanning the recent messages I still see a lot about dot files
> etc.  This is an implementation issue; platform specific issues such

This is a separate issue for the group to deal with. Nothing (much) to do
with messaging.

T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-apps at eso.org [mailto:owner-apps at eso.org] On 
> Behalf Of Doug Tody
> Sent: 13 February 2007 19:39
> To: Doug Burke
> Cc: apps at ivoa.net
> Subject: Re: Applications Messaging Standard
> 
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Doug Burke wrote:
> 
> > I am not trying to suggest that XPA be used instead of 
> PLASTIC. I just 
> > wondered whether the XPA experience here would provide any 
> useful input to 
> > this part of the discussion.
> >
> > [1] http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/xpa/
> > [2] http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/xpa/xpans.html
> 
> XPA and PLASTIC are very similar in terms of scope and usage, and
> I think this new inter-tool messaging standard could benefit from
> both experiences.
> 
> BTW, scanning the recent messages I still see a lot about dot files
> etc.  This is an implementation issue; platform specific issues such
> as dot files in U*nix can be dealt with by the implementation, and
> do not have to be addressed by the standard protocol.  Just define an
> implementation neutral messaging standard, and do a couple of initial
> implementations in some straightforward, simple fashion.  We just want
> enough flexibility in implementation to allow integration with more
> sophisticated messaging frameworks in the future, without having to 
> change all the apps.
> 
>  	- Doug
>