Re: [Openflow-dev] OpenFlow thoughts

[Shane H. <sh...@zo...>]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Juli=E1n Mu=F1oz Dom=EDnguez wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>
> > I need to understand better what an application is.  Is its purpose to
> > allow you to poke an URL when an activity happens?  If so, it might be
> > better to create a general-purpose Zope URL Poker and allow the workflo=
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> > to use any callable Zope object as a hook.
>
> On the beginning, there were no automatic activities. All were called
> througth the "ToDo List", and they were launched calling them via the
> browser, so via an url. This url, PLUS the parameters is what the
> application represents.

I'm not following what you're saying.

> Suppose that an application is defined through a Zope object, and not a
> url: you loose this facility. Well, in fact, every Zope object has one or
> more urls ...

I think you're saying that since you realized every Zope object does in
fact have a URL, there's no reason *not* to use Zope objects, right?  I
agree. :-)

Shane