On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 04:50:44PM -0200, Barzilai Spinak wrote: > * Layered telephony API (with primitive telephony operations)
This is somewhat on the todo list, but personally i'd like to see everyones point of view. What (kind of) layers do you want to see and how would you like to see them abstracted? Feel free to draw a big visio (or sth) picture :-) > * A real scripting language (the new AEL in Asterisk is a good way > towards that goal, but it could be another language, or a pluggable one.) Someone (wsuff -i believe-) was to propose something nice, elegant and easy. > * An GOOD event model, to which high level applications can subscribe. > (Asterisk's AGI/Fast-AGI and Manager API... kind of overlap in some > areas, and suffer somewhat from the "non-layered" architecture) This is on the todo list, i have brewn some ideas, but i like to hear more-in-detail ideas on that, too. > * Well-documented code. (Asterisk code is kind of terse in this area, > making it difficult for other people to contribute). Doxygen is on the way, i started something introducing on the wiki and the api will be in doxy. My box at home is turned off for iam not at home for two weeks, so its offline currently. > * I've seen a mention about a SOAP protocol in OpenPBX. Be careful!! > I've worked quite a lot with SOAP, and it can quickly become in a very > heavy load to bear, it requires some precious CPU (which can be better > used for DSP in Asterisk/OpenPBX. I'd be inclined to develop/extend the > simple text protocols that Asterisk already has, and perhaps then > implement a more complex XML protocol on top of that. SOAP is XML only, too. As to my personal believes (i think i said that before) i'd like a numeric based, ftp-control-channel-alike protocol. It gives all we need and is easy to overcome. > OK I have more to ask but i'll stop here before I get flamed. > It's not me, it's the caffeine writing! No. No Flames, Input is always welcome. -- http://www.ukeer.de/about.html "Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software." --Arthur C. Clarke _______________________________________________ Openpbx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openpbx.org/mailman/listinfo/openpbx-dev
