RE: [Xpipe-developers] questions about using 0.4

[Sean M. <sea...@pr...>]

At 07:36 30/01/2002 -0500, David Starr wrote:
>Just thinking out loud here, what implications does this have for the
>executive?  Processing an XPipe is a fairly straight-forward and linear if
>XComponents don't split.  If they split, something has to manage the fact
>that there will be multiple active XComponents same time.

Yes indeed. Scheduling becomes interesting but I feel that graph structures
will need to be catered for in the topology as many XML processing
tasks involve routing content through different work flows.

I dislike the term "workflow" because of all the connotations it brings so 
I'm going
to try and avoid using it:-)

The goal is to allow linear pipes to be easily crafted and easily executed but
to allow collections of these pipes to be joined together into higher level 
rigs
to achieve more complex data flows.

The XRig level is definitely something that will be bitten off later rather 
than now.
The primary goal now is to get linear pipes working. The secondary goal is to
be able to counter the question "how do I do conditional flow processing" 
by punting
to the XRig level of the architecture :-)

regards,
Sean