Re: [Bodington-developers] Spring again

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Alistair Young wrote:
>> Plugin in what sense?

> added functionality, like our MyModules, which has to go in Facility  
> just now. Also, different "views" of users. Chat view for instance.  
> Who's online, start a chat with them


>> Not a tool in the bodingtno sense that can be deployed at multiple  
>> URLs?

> no, that's a good point. Plugins aren't bod specific. They're an  
> easier way to customise a bod. e.g. ox can't use our MyModules and  
> Chat so rather than endlessly removing from merges, just do them as  
> plugins.

Ok so plugins aren't tools. Although I'd argue that chat should be a 
tool rather than a plugin as it makes sense that you could have multiple 
chat tools in a bod.

>> Spring App?
> well he'd rather do it as a spring app, then he can run it somewhere  
> else. So he needs your bs_spring stuff in our head. Maybe it can't be  
> a plugin as it might need to be added to bod at multiple urls.

But what is the application exposing? and API? a set of web pages? a Web 
Service?

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