Jean-Marc Valin wrote: > > I would like to add that if we put the schetuling/splitting of the XML networks > in the DL, we also save some complexity in the BL: it will not have to know what > the XML means at all (hence, no need to link to libflowui and libxml). I like to > think of the BL as a middle pary that handles all the communications (and > authentication), yet without having to understand anything about the content of > the said communications. This applies for the XML networks, the PL-DL > communications, ... I think this might address Brad's concern that the BL would > grow as to include everything including the kitchen sink. I agree and recall that the original plan was to not have any XML processing in the BL. Jeff -- 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. --