On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Kee Hinckley wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > At 8:35 AM +0800 10/26/01, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > >Aaron, while I think commerce is quite important, I personally do > >not feel it belongs as part of the P5EE space. > > > >As I've mentioned previously on this list, P5EE is about generic > >enterprise frameworks. Banking and merchant functionality is a > >specific space. Business::CreditCard belong in a Commerce Perl > >bundle which ideally would be "P5EE-Enabled" to plug into a P5EE > >transaction or web services server. But it would not come with P5EE. > > But in designing P5EE, consideration should be made to make sure that > we are supporting classes of applications such as banking and > merchant plugins--particularly wrt security.
Yeah, maybe there should be a security API but the design of the platform will support any application in the manner that is required - 'banking and merchant' arent particularly special - this should be left to the implementor: it is a vertical space. /J\
