on 12/8/2000 2:41 PM, "Will Stranathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, I think of the "global set of objects" as a duplicate of the
> model data, but now that I re-read everything, there is no duplication -
> model data isn't requested from the store until the template requests it
> from the "global set of objects".
Correct, I should re-word that. When I originally wrote it, I was thinking
that we would need to stick a huge number of objects into the context to
deal with things. Now, I think it will probably be more like 1 or 2 objects
at most.
> Hmmmm...sounds a lot like PVCS Dimensions. That was probably the only
> GOOD thing about Dimensions - a definable process model. (Considering
> that Merant calls Dimensions a process control system, I suppose they
> had to get that much right.)
>
> But I understand now. I think it will be difficult to enforce the
> policies without asking either the web person to write too much code, or
> moving backwards - back toward the PUSH model. (MVCC lite?)
Right, so I think it should be defined externally. I'm doing searches on the
net right now and just found Jess...if any of you have other Java based OSS
solutions for this, I would appreciate hearing about them.
<http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/jess/>
Jess seems pretty good, but the license may be an issue.
-jon
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