Gregory Woodhouse wrote: >Unfortunately, messaging interfaces tend to be hand-crafted and >rather labor intensive to build. This is one issue I hoped to address >with my temporarily (I hope) suspended project that I initially named >HL7 Data Binding, though I later referred to it as either an >interface compiler or the generic query.
I too have built and continue to build on something that I sometimes refer to as "generic query". (http://vista.vmth.ucdavis.edu/home/index/26.html) It works mostly in the context of accessing MUMPS data on the web, but underlying functions and problems are independent of any particular interface. I suspect that your "generic query" and mine have something in common and perhaps ideas from one could enrich the other. >Mostly, I've built pieces of >what I would eventually like to develop as parts of individual >projects. Lately, I've been thinking in terms of developing it >outside of VistA Please descibe these parts for us in a little more detail and the projects you envision. Perhaps discussion on this list could help to move them forward. >since there seems to be relatively little interest >in the project at present, and many coding techniques common in VistA >(such as direct sets to Fileman globals) are a real impediment to >making a generic solution work, and perhaps why hand-crafted >solutions have remained so common. Perhaps it is not so much a lack of interest as it is a lack of understanding on how to proceed or waiting for someone to lead? >I do have some thoughts about how >to address this problem (and have passed them on to my management), >but they could perhaps be considered a bit radical (such as building >a Fileman aware MUMPS interpreter, perhaps as a layer, rather like >VPE.) These days, I'm thinking of compilation as a much more >realistic solution. We have been thinking of preprocessors also. I don't much like the idea of keeping intermediate compiled files hanging around, so I wonder if the macro feature in the older programmer documentation for GT.M is likely to be resurrected soon in Linux? --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
