[Pipet Devel] more on Eazel

[Gary Van Domselaar]

"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote:


> 
> Talks with Gary (for those who don't know, Gary and I met in person over a
> week's time to hash out some design issues) led me to start calling Loci a
> 'connectivity broker'.  This means that Loci will be agnostic to the
> communications protocol used by the back-end program.  CORBA, HTTP, COM, UNIX
> pipes, XML_RPC, etc. can all be supported if the support is 'plugged in' to
> Loci.  Why?
> 
>     BECAUSE MANY, MANY PROGRAMS HAVE THEIR COMMUNICATIONS
>     PROTOCOL BUILT-IN (e.g, Apache), AND FORCING THESE PROGRAMS
>     TO CHANGE PROTOCOLS WOULD BE A MESS AND JUST PLAIN WRONG(TM).
>     AND LOCI WOULD OTHERWISE BECOME LIMITED TO WORKING ONLY WITH
>     PROGRAMS THAT ARE COMPATIBLE WITH...CORBA, OR WHATEVER.

Word.
> 
> But, you're right that the first programs to make work under Loci should be
> bioinformatics apps.  

And it would be nice if we could the the corba connectivity up and
running right away.  There's a lot of excitement with bioperl,
biopython, ebi, etc etc on corba connectivity, so we could possibly
recruit some help from these groups to get it up and running.

Regards,

g.
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                                  Gary Van Domselaar
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