applications software metadata

[Guy Rixon]

Sebastien,

if the interactive-application aspects and the embedded-application aspects
were modelled as Capability sub-types, then we could have an application
description that included both.

Cheers,
Guy

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Sebastien Derriere wrote:

>
> > The prime distinction will need to be between apps requiring intermediate user intervention
> > (GUI-type apps being the obvious extreme) and those which can be executed automatically
> > (eg as part of a workflow) with all user intervention completed before the app is
> > submitted.
>
>   Hi Tony,
>
>   I totally agree that this is an essential distinction to be made:
> distinguish
> which applications can be run without human interaction, and those that
> require/
> allow human interaction (via a GUI or command line input).
>   But the distinction might not be always that easy:
> - Aladin, if described as a single application, can be used both as an
> interactive
> tool, or be run with script command without interface, and possibly
> included in a
> pipeline
> - we might need to think about ways of having hierarchical entries in
> the registry,
> to avoid having a fully 'flat' registry, with specific apps registered
> at the same
> level as general tools: what if someone decides to register every
> function of the
> IDL-Astrolib library of functions as individual applications? These
> functions would
> get registered at the same level as the IDL application itself?
>
> Sebastien.
>
>
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