Re: [Xpipe-developers] 0.6 and what's next.

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

At 11:04 05/02/2002 -0500, David Starr wrote:
>I just took a look through the 0.6 code (still have to look at the NetBeans
>editor component).  I see that the XPipe XComponents element no longer has a
>ScheduleType which was the bit that I was waiting on the code for to
>complete my understanding.  So with that missing, I guess I fully understand
>XPipes now.

Scheduling is back in primordial soup land in my head. I've been reading
a lot about emergent behaviour, web services orchestration, XLANG etc.
and think some more thinking time is in order before I put forward
a proposal for scheduling. Ideas solicited!


>Apart from what's in the development plan, there seem to be a number of
>things left to take care of in the existing components:
>     -   Parameter passing.
>     -   Testing of pre- and post-conditions.
>     - Generalizing unit testing so that it extends to XPipes.
>
>Is there a plan for these?  I know that my Java implementations don't
>currently fit the 'unpack an XComponent' model.  If it's desired to have
>these implemented in Java, I could presumably rework a version in Java that
>acts on unpacked components (although it's my personal preference to try and
>avoid unpacking) and add some of the items mentioned above.

These are on my list for this weekend. A side-effect of the parameter passing
work will be that xc5 - the first "Exec" component will become functional.

I'd really appreciate help getting the Ant build (build.xml) into shape 
David. If you
get some time could you take a look at it?

Sean