Tr: XML Gave A War, But Nobody Came

I fully support this view expressed by Robert Dakin.

I seems to me that it is along those lines that the work should be
continued.

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----- Message d'origine -----
De : Robert Dakin <[email protected]>
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Envoy� : vendredi 2 juin 2000 04:48
Objet : Re: XML Gave A War, But Nobody Came


> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:31:14 -0500, Rachel Foerster wrote:
>
> >[snipped]
> >
> >Therefore, why not spend our collective efforts on developing a common
> >framework/infrastructure that will support interoperability of any and
all
> >variants? That's much more achievable than developing a single common
> >document format and then getting the world to adopt it.
>
> Having lurked for some time, I am venturing from my bunker to say
> a few words.
>
> I would have thought that he natural OO approach would be  to
> think of a PO (or whatever) as a class and develop a tree of PO's.
> The root of the tree would comprise a common subset of data
> and functionality, and descendent classes would elaborate parent
> classes to satisfy real application contexts.
> Root classes would most naturally belong in Core Components.
>
> I had assumed that an OO approach to EC would include this idea,
> extending to multi-transaction scenarios - but I have
> not seen much evidence of this way of thinking in recent ebXML
> material.  Please correct me if I have missed something.
>
> By exploiting polymorphism and inheritance it should be
> relatively easy to construct software components that handle
> any of a subtree of PO's or whatever and achieve interoperability
> between them.
>
> Comments?
>
> Robert Dakin
> ___________________________________________________________
> Dr Robert Dakin
> Dakin Technology
> [email protected]
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>


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