Re: Applications Messaging Standard

From: John Taylor <jontayler-at-gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:18:27 +0000


>>
>>
>> Doug Tody wrote:
>>> In any case, the real issue here is not what the current PLASTIC
>>> implementation does, but what we want for an inter-tool messaging
>>> standard developed via the IVOA framework.
>>
>> Absolutely, however I think the first thing we should do is take a
>> hard look at PLASTIC. Its proved that it can fill the inter-
>> application messaging niche extremely successfully, and has been
>> widely adopted, usually from the ground up, rather than imposed
>> from the top down. That says to me that its easy to develop
>> against and that it does what it sets out to do well enough that
>> people are willing to overlook its flaws (and I'd be the first to
>> say there are several, sorry John!)...
>>

Hey - you're talking to the author of the "What I hate about PLASTIC wiki page". There's plenty of things I'd like to change. John Received on 2007-02-08Z18:30:59