Doug, Kona, Pedro
It seems to me that the TAP consists of these parts:
(a) There is a Query
(b) that is wrapped in the Protocol and sent to the service
(c) that may be Managed synchronous or asynchronous
And it seems to me that
(a) Query is about ADQL, mostly handled by the VOQL group
(b) Protocol is about TAP, mostly for the DAL group
(c) Management is about GET/REST and UWS, mostly for the GWS group
When the query (a) is a getCapabilities query, the most interesting
return is
(1) the tables and attributes (SQL metadata) rather than
(2) the VOResource registry entry.
This data dictionary (1) can come back the same way as any other table -- a VOTable or CSV etc.
Is this picture basically correct?
Roy Received on 2007-04-25Z17:36:50