ADASS discussions

[Chenzhou Cui]

hi. Guy,

I am sorry for my misunderstanding of your words.

Maybe it is too early to decide whether OGSI services become _mandatory_ 
for any part of IVOA.

Cheers,
Chenzhou

Guy Rixon wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Chenzhou Cui wrote:
> 
> 
>>Guy Rixon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alasdair Allan wrote:
>>>
>>>...
>>>Recently, I'm beginning to wonder if OGSI is worth the bother.  Here in Java
>>>land, we're stuck with GT3 as the only implementation, which makes development
>>>slow and difficult.  Parastatidis et al. have questioned the usefulness of
>>>OGSI as a standard, proposing an alternative that matches better to web
>>>services standards.  If we don't do OGSI now, I'm wondering if it will have
>>>become obsolete by the time we need to exploit it.
>>>
>>>...
>>
>>I think it is suitable for a small VO project, such as China-VO, to
>>focus its effort on one choice or just a few choices. We can adopt other
>>technologies after they have been implemented successfully in other VO
>>projects.
> 
> 
> China-VO can do whatever works best internally, of course.  We wouldn't dream
> to trying to stop you using OGSI.  However, we need to decide whether OGSI
> services become _mandatory_ for any part of IVOA.  I.e., to connect a
> hypothetical Xxx-VO to the global Virtual Observatory, do the Xxx-VO people
> _have_ to add some OGSI services, or can they do it all with "standard" web
> services?
> 
> 

> 
> Guy Rixon 				        gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk
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