There is some basic architecture overview information in section 6 of http://svn.openehr.org/specification/TRUNK/publishing/architecture/overview.pdf
Otherwise the persistence notes I just uploaded may help the discussion. - thomas Bert Verhees wrote: > >> Of cause it is possible to hide everything behind a persistence layer >> _interface_ and doesn?t talk anything about what we have behind the >> interface. But the subject and quite many of the mails had talked >> about the >> persistence layer (and not the interface), then it is necessarily to >> know >> what kind of application it should support. >> >> > It was me bringing up the subject a few times, and it was because that > was a part which was not worked out in the openeher specs, and because > I am quite new here, I thought I had missed something. > It was difficult to make myself clear, and therefore difficult to get > a clear answer, that is why some mails about this were sent. > > I thought there had to be a clear point where one could point, like > Lego-blocks (www.lego.com), you take a persistence layer block, and > put it below the reference kernel, put the archetype kernel-block on > top and an GUI block on top of that, and you have build an information > system. > > I could'n't find a clear spot where to put the persistence layer > block, nor could I find a description of the interface that openehr > was prepared for, and I heard in Holland people shout, just put a > database below and run it, and I thought, am I a fool? > > But now it is clear to me. Those shouting people did not have much > knowledge on the subject. > > There are no persistence layer defined in the OpenEhr specs, Thomas > said there will be specs for this after some time. > > Agree? > > Bert > > -- ___________________________________________________________________________________ CTO Ocean Informatics (http://www.OceanInformatics.biz) Research Fellow, University College London (http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk) Chair Architectural Review Board, openEHR (http://www.openEHR.org)

