On Tuesday 13 April 2004 12:12, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > I think you need to elaborate, but all in all, I think your ideas seem > reasonable.
I will as soon as I get anywhere forward... Stay tuned. > > Here the problems of consensus would start big time. Some would be > > in favour of sticking to a Java only solution, others to files in > > JAR or entries in Manifest, and perhaps another group would like to > > see an RDF solution. Are they mutually exclusive? No, but the more > > schemes the harder for everyone. > > I keep thinking that this is a representation issue, and multiple forms > could be supported. A container could detect which, if any, > representations that it understands is present, and act accordingly. If it > did not find any, that would mean, in your words, that "the component > doesn't work with that container." Agree. Unfortunately, the more such 'representations' that one introduces, the harder it is for both the container and the component authors, to support 'all'. > However, with respect to consensus, it seems to me that although we > sometimes get a reasonable and workable message like yours, from which > people could try to build a consensus, we are increasingly seeing dug in > positions of absolutes that leave no room. I am trying to break out of the stalemate around here, and forget about what we disagree about and try to concentrate on what we DO agree on - yes there are such things :o) Cheers Niclas -- +---------//-------------------+ | http://www.bali.ac | | http://niclas.hedhman.org | +------//----------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
