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I have to agree with Paul here. If the interface is only implementable in a single language, then you've failed. Programmers need to make engineering tradeoffs among a number of factors, and will sometimes very reasonably choose one language over another. We could expediently pick one language and ignore all others in order to simplify the problem a little, but that would be letting the solution dictate the problem. I don't recommend it, since it would simply mean that the parsers written in other languages would be guaranteed incompatible. --Andrew Layman AndrewL@m... > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Prescod [SMTP:papresco@t...] > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 12:30 PM > To: xml-dev@i... > Subject: Re: IDL? > > Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > > > The interface has to be simple enough for people like me to understand > and > > to tell my friends what it's about. I would prefer to limit the > Consumers, > > Factories and the rest to as few as possible. > > An IDL interface implies no extra complication in the Java interface. It > merely describes the Java interface in terms that are more universal > than Java itself -- it is like a DTD for interfaces. So far nobody has > yet proposed anything that would make an IDL description impossible. All > I ask is that: > > a) nobody do so later (e.g. require runtime lookup of Java class objects > or do something simiarly brain-dead) and > > b) implementations in other languages be considered "successes" in terms > of the success/failure of this project. > > I don't think that either of these constraints endanger the success of > the Java-specific part of the project or make the Java-specific part > more difficult. > > Paul Prescod > > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following > message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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