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   RE: [xml-dev] Utilizing the Web's Whole Information Space, i.e., Mechani

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I was trying very hard to stay out of this but since 
my name was invoked, leathery winged thing that I am, 
I am compelled to answer.

... explosion from smoke box, low strings and horns 
with slow timpani pulse in unison crescendo to brass section 
fanfare and cymbal crash (really kitchy stuff)
 
<sigh>The Web is information resources identified by URIs.</sigh> 

... wild applause at the obvious simple brilliance of that with 
flowers thrown at feet of The Director and some discussion in the 
box seats of giving him yet another prize with a $ amount and 
an opportunity to speak to the general assembly of the UN...

You don't really want to open up that discussion again.  

Mechanisms will mean real things like clients and servers, yes?  Unless you 
assume those definitions, then this is a discussion of as 
one said, computer science or just patterns of open integrated 
hypermedia systems.  The Web hasn't contributed anything new 
to that domain in terms of patterns of information use and 
formation, so 'emergence' isn't exactly right: repackaged, 
relabeled and patented are.  We knew how to build component 
architectures a long time ago.  "THE WEB" == URI.  Full stop.

Patterns of communication abstracted from their implementations 
are describable without reference to The Web or mechanisms 
implemented to use URIs, TCP/IP etc. just as the SOA RM 
can be described without reference to web services.  The SOA RM 
is SOA's analog to XML's infoset (not buyable, but definitional).

The use of the SOA RM acts as an upper ontology (really, terms 
and definitions) which can then be used in descriptions of Enterprise SOA
(the 
services comprising a business of some type).  The Enterprise 
SOA is then used as the basis for describing services to be 
procured.  The vendor answers with a set of possibly web 
services or other implementations that meet the requirements 
of the Enterprise SOA.  What you can actually price 
are forms, reports, fields, interfaces, hardware 
services and licenses.

So if this is a Pattern RM, one could start with:  

o Publish/Subscribe

o Call/Response

o Get

o Post

o Push 

o Pull

You aren't by any chance looking for the MEPs As Yet To Be 
Named By URIs are you?

len


From: Peter Hunsberger [mailto:peter.hunsberger@gmail.com]

Huh?  "physical virtual layer"?

You mean the layer that isn't really there?

(Maybe we can get Len to set it to music.)




 

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