Re: [Somelib] Greetings

[John A. P. <jo...@ma...>]

Hi Frank,

I started SOMELib.  Right now I play a minor role in the development
though I keep an eye on design and such and put in my $.02 now and
again.  Thomas does the bulk of the development right now.  When you
talk about having knowledge that goes "way back to SOM"  are you talking
about my original releases of SOMlib(simple object model) or IBM's
SOM(system object model)?  I had changed the name to SOMELib to avoid
confusion.  Ours is a simple inprocess object model for extending
dynamic object loading on Linux and now Windows systems.  The new
codebase is completely rewritten and is currently in its alpha stage. 
It in fact does not even have Makefiles for Linux yet.

SOMELib is meant to be a simple library with not much higher level
functionality and almost no dependencies other than standard
components.  In other words a person can drop in SOMELib and use it just
as if they were using c's dynamic loading facilities (at bit more
complex than that but you get the idea).  Theoretically you should be
able to create a CoreLinux++ loadable object that has the ability to
load SOMELib objects very easily and with little overhead.  

As for collaboration on a standard for metaclasses/metatype classes for
reflection/introspection.  I think this would be great.  Having a
standard for such a task would alleviate the pains of developers and
would allow people to chose what implementation they wish to use.  For
crossplatformability alacart SOMELib and for full linux standards with
many backup classes CoreLinux++.  So it sounds like fun.  Is there a
mailing list setup for this yet?

Our main concern with SOMELib is to not sacrifice simplicity and as long
as this does not I am all for it.

-Quinticent

SOMELib
http://sourceforge.net/projects/somelib/
C++ object loading

The Snaglepuss Project
http://sourceforge.net/projects/snaglepuss/
Multimedia development engine 

"Frank V. Castellucci" wrote:
> 
> I am the project admin for CoreLinux++. I have experience in declarative
> object modeling, knowledge representation, meta-models, and way back to
> SOM.
> 
> Our objectives were to create a core library (90% complete) and then
> develop common framework abstractions (libclfw++) which we have just
> begun.
> 
> For example, we have already put in the Library Load abstraction with
> the intent to construct specialized derivations (such as Function
> Library Load, Image Library Load, etc.). It was obvious that the
> metaclass/metatype objects would be very useful in this and many other
> framework plans for reflection, reasoning, and reification.
> 
> So my reason for posting to this list is to see if there is any interest
> in joining forces in CoreLinux++ with the intent to extend
> metaclass/metatype/meta-attribute paradigm to further specialize the
> libraries.
> 
> This has immediate applications in our plans for Persistence, Class
> Loading, Toolbox function reasoning, and type ontology management.
> 
> Looking forward to your response.
> 
> --
> Frank V. Castellucci
> http://corelinux.sourceforge.net
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