Re: [Plastic-devs] Occasionally asked questions

[Noel W. <Noe...@ma...>]

On 23 Nov 2006, at 14:33, Mark Taylor wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, John Taylor wrote:
>
>> Do you think there's anything to be gained in having a prominent  
>> FAQ on
>> Plastic Central that addresses these issues as we encounter them?
>
> good idea.
>
>> I've made a rough start (attached, without css)  - if anyone wants  
>> to add
>> something (or indeed, thinks it's a rubbish idea), then let me know.
>
> I find the "it's not Java-centric honest" rhetoric to be slightly
> disingenuous: what is true is that the hub has to be written in Java
> (um, unless you want to try to fake Java RMI-Lite communications from
> Python ... good luck).  I'm not sure whether you're avoiding emphasis
> of this fact in order to serve the greater good, or if it's an  
> oversight.
>

does / should the plastic spec mandate that java-rmi must be  
supported in a valid implementation of a hub?
an xml-rpc hub could certainly be written in python.

there's other transports / encodings that you could consider adding  
to such a hub - JSON being the currently most fashionable - http:// 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Json - because of it's utiility in ajax-like  
things.

should a minimum set of transports be mandatatory for a hub? or, if  
not, is there a way of describing what transports a hub supports  
(something in the .plastic file maybe?)


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