[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, there is.
> The idea is to specify the data structure once, and then have the 
> system autogenerate the middleware and backend code.
> Otherwise you end up with the current gnumed situation: having to write 
> a 
> datastructure in SQL, and then do it all again in Python (or whatever
> middlware language)
> 
> There are 3 ways: 
> 1- specify in Python (i.e. the middle layer) and generate backend SQL
> 2- specify in SQL and generate middleware
> 3- specify in a third language which then is translated into SQL and
> also runs the middleware.
> 
> I'm not suire if OpenEHR is a 1 or a 3. 

My understanding is that it is a 3, where the third language is ADL (archetype 
definition language), which looks a lot like Eiffel code but isn't, and which 
needs to be interpreted by the openEHR engines/kernels which are not yet 
available for love nor money.

Tim C
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