Yes! I read Kurt Cagle's piece
(http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/09/synoa_what.html) and
listened to the Rohit Khare-Jon Udell
interview (http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3275.html) with
great interest. I have a sense that what I am thinking about is using
Atom on a somewhat more 'micro' scale within an application itself (there
would be times, for instance, when a database query result would simply be
cached as an Atom doc on the filesystem and if it was 'fresh' enough would
obviate the need for a database call and generation of the Atom result).
I don't even know if that sort of apporach is worth the trouble, but I am
trying to heed Roy Fielding's advice to "engineer for serendipity" and
Atom strikes me as having a fairly high serenditipy quotient :).
thanks-
peter keane
daseproject.org
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
Did you see the SynOA discussion from KnowNow?
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 5, 2007, at 7:15, pkeane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Following on my "Why Use Atom?" posting.... I am trying to figure out if I
would simply be pushing Atom beyond its practical limits to build an entire
web application as Atom publishers and consumers. I'd like implement an
MVC architecture where the layers all spoke Atom to one another. All
database access would be mediated by an Atom feed (read) and AtomPub
interface (write). Everything from error logs, image slideshows,
collection settings, incremental backups, etc. would be mediated by way of
an Atom feed. Search would simply be an OpenSearch implementation that the
application itself exposed and consumed.
Why? Because I must have a plug-in architecture to allow users to create
new application extensions, modules, etc. Instead of inventing a new
plug-in architecture and write yet another "how to create a DASe plug-in"
document, I simply say "here are the available Atom feeds -- mash 'em up
any way you'd like" (I know, for instance, folks will want to create
fancier presentation tools than the app currently provides). Not to
mention what sorts of new & interesting combinations would occur when my
Atom consumers-that-do-interesting-things-with-my-Atom-feeds are pointed at
someone else's Atom feeds.
Any thoughts or pointers to similar approaches out there??
-Peter Keane
daseproject.org
