Jarl, I didn't speak up, because I'm still not clear what you mean. You're concerned that there is no standard schema for the XML of the input and output of individual applications (or components)? What does that have to do with software engineering design patterns? Design patterns are more abstract than data formats. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: J.W. Bizzaro [mailto:jeff at bioinformatics.org] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:05 PM To: pipet-devel at bioinformatics.org Subject: Re: [Pipet Devel] Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration I can hear the crickets chirping. Chirp, chirp, chirp. Can anyone provide a comment for Jarl? Cheers. Jeff jarl van katwijk wrote: > > > I have something else that worries me more, let's keep up the atmosphere and > > call it the pattern problem. It's about how to represent the executables. How > > will > > we layout the XML that describes the applications? I know we can stream > > stdout and stdin data, we can build many 'templates' for a N number of > > applications, but this will die a very chaotic death I'm afraid. I myself dont > > know > > what the best approach is to this XML patterning Piper will use. I'm very much > > interested in your comment. > > > > Not that much reply, so maybe this clears things > up: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/patterns.html -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- _______________________________________________ pipet-devel maillist - pipet-devel at bioinformatics.org http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/pipet-devel