Draft Minutes of ICOM TC Meeting, January 19, 2011

Minutes of ICOM TC Meeting,
January 19, taken by Eric S. Chan

 

Agenda 

 

1. Roll Call 

2. Review the java.net article for ICOM JPA framework 

3. AOB

 

1. The following eligible members
were present

 

Deirdre Lee

Patrick Durusau

Chancellor Pascale

Eric Chan

 

2. Review the java.net article for ICOM JPA framework

 

Who is the audience for the article? 

 

The audience is the developers who may extend the ICOM JPA
framework and integrate it with their applications.

 

How does the article differ from the official specification?

 

Eric explained that the article goes into more detail on why
certain choices were made (the rationale) and how things can be implemented,
whereas the specification only defines the formal definition of the model. The specification currently is in a draft status, so is not
yet in the public domain. The article emphasizes the architecture (how components
fit together), design rationale (why part), and programming examples (how
part), while providing the detailed model from the specification (what
part). These are relatively high-level information for the developers who work
at the source code level. 

 

Patrick made the point that if/when the specification
becomes an actual standard, it may have evolved, and will then not be
consistent with the information in the article.

 

Deirdre proposed to narrow the article into 1/2 pages for publication
in a leading technical magazine, in order to publicize/disseminate the project.

 

Patrick to condense the original article to a short article
to give the gist of the project.

 

The java.net has moved to a beta
site which is accessible from http://kenai.com/.

 

Please send comments to Eric over
the next week.

 

3. AOB

 

The Meeting was adjourned.