Re: XORBA, XELDA, antileasing, presence, and other random thoughts

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From: Mark Baker (distobj@acm.org)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2000 - 20:23:26 PDT

>I'm a huge advocate of "generative communications." A simple set of
abstractions
>/ operations over XORBA gets you a long way: a notion of a named
"communication
>space," i.e a web page with simple operations for inserting

POST

>, associatively
>querying / reading

GET

>, and removing XML objects from said space

DELETE

You probably also want replacement, ala PUT.

>plus a few ancillary
>operations related to leasing and parameterizable semantics on a per-space
basis,
>and voila you've got something really interesting. Let's call it XELDA,
the XML
>Extensible Linda-like Distribution Architecture. Move over Jini /
Javaspaces,
>here's the real deal.

Let's just call it "The Web", and check the little "been there, done that"
box.

The plumber has left the building.

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