[Pipet Devel] J.W. Bizzaro; TODO 20000218

[Gary Van Domselaar]

Gary Van Domselaar wrote:

Whoops, here's the reader's digest version ;-)

> > What may be confusing, and I'm not sure how much I wrote about this to you, is
> > that the front-end(s) and the middleware will communicate by sending XML tags
> > back and forth.  And the tags are commands.  Here's an example:
> >
> >     <gi locus_select id=387hwj7843>        gi requests selection of locus
> >     <middle locus_select id=387hwj7843>    middle approves
> >     ...
> >
> > The middleware will have to echo back an approval for the front-end to proceed.
> >
> > This will be a 'dialog' that occurs through a pipe (Gary mentioned that this
> > might occur via HTTP).
> 
> HTTP works well with xml and would give us the hook into an
> xml-compliant web-browser interface if and when this aspect of loci
> comes about.
> 
> > Gary and I developed this approach together.  If you have more questions,
> > perhaps Gary can join in on the conversion ;-)
> 
> OpenDX also uses this approach.  Actually, Brad, did you ever receive
> those rough Loci architecture drafts that Jeff and I hacked together?  I
> wouldn't mind making a wp doc from those and posting it to the group,
> once it gets the stamp of approval.  Maybe I should add _that_ to _my_
> TODO list.
> 
> g.
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