I think we should be aiming to be identical in every respect in which it is reasonable to do so. That is to say that, if there is not a very good reason for the API being different among the clients, then why make it different? There may need to be occasional differences to cater for the conventions/type systems/other reasons relating to the implementing technology. I'd like to see identical package/namespace names (relative to a root), class names, method names, method arguments, argument types, even the ordering of the arguments in method calls, in so far as its possible within the different languages. If I were looking at Qpid for the first time, this would speak volumes to me about the unified, well integrated product that Qpid is. The manual will only need to be written once (with examples that easily translate). Are there any compelling reasons not to do this?
Also, if its to be done it should be done as early as possible. Before there are too many clients coding to the different APIs that will be very annoyed at having it refactored under their feet. Rupert On 3/6/07, Gordon Sim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Robert Godfrey wrote: > Indeed... But java code littered with disambiguating > org.apache.qpid.amqp.Session and javax.jms.Session sure does look ugly :-) > ... now if only you could do aliasing you could call one AMQPSession and > one > JMSSession ;-) I agree, it would be nice to be able to define alias type names or 'import as' or something in java. That's one reason that identical naming across several languages may be hard to agree on - each language brings a slightly different set of conventions and constraints into play. Getting more consistent doesn't have to mean being identical in every respect though. Perhaps the place to start is at the structural level; deciding whether we want a low level AMQP API for each language, mirroring the protocol structure in effect and therefore more likely to be easily understood across different clients. I would certainly like to make the c++ and python clients more consistent, but haven't thought it all through yet.
