Re: [Geotools-devel] A standard API

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

Bryce L Nordgren wrote:
> 19119 is what you're after and it is also an OGC doc (Abstract Spec, Topic
> 12; http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=1221).  As I
> recall, it avoids implementation details like the plague.  It does provide
> some suggestions as to how to categorize various services (I do not believe
> these are normative, though.)
>
> I don't think it will help you implement an SOA framework, though.
>   
Thanks muchly; that is very useful background material. I am familiar 
with a lot of these definitions since they showed up in early WRS 
schemas. But yes that
is a good take on the parameter problem (although it delegates out to 
the same facilities as Record and Feature typing).
> You forgot Java Business Integration.  (JSR-208) They cleverly gave it a
> crappy name.  It is, however, "final" and you can download the reference
> implementation of the framework from the JCP site.  Perhaps there are even
> commercial implementations by now.  In any case, if you adopt JSR-208, then
> you trade implementing your own SOA framework for creating another
> dependency, and you can concentrate on just writing services.
>   
That is so cute; they even have InPut parameters - in Java. I found it 
almost impossible to get my bearings on this work; I hope it can be 
safely ignored. It seems to be an amazing exercise in MBeans focused on 
passing messages around between rather large services. Still there is 
good content here in the form of hot swap deploy/undeploy of services...

Jody