RE: [DotGNU]RDF based discovery system

[James Michael DuPont]

--- James Mc Parlane <address@hidden> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Michael DuPont [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:24 AM
> > To: Norbert Bollow; address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [DotGNU]RDF based discovery system
> > 
> > 
> > This ties back into my original proposal for a meta-object
> workgroup 
> > and meta-data repository. 
> > http://wiki.dotgnu.org/TaskMetaDataRepository
> > 
> > That would provide many datasources for a generic discovery system.
> > 
> 
> I like it.

Cool.

> 
> This sounds like it would complement the MetaWrap project, a
> "MetaDataRepository" could act as an API/data directory which a user
> could
> search, a MetaWrap plugin could then be dynamically created by
> interpreting
> the XML and downloading/linking the specified code. 

I hope so. That is the entire idea. It is funny that C# and IL supports
such an easy access to this data via relection. Ada supports it via
ASIS. Other languages as well. Why not pull all this information into
common format.

Also this ties into the Corba Meta-data / Interface repository. Please
check out this paper :
http://www.computer.org/conferences/meta96/wolf/node1.html
Mico Also supports interface repository.
http://emily.soils.wisc.edu/mico_docs/doc/node21.html

>The
> operator/object
> could then be mounted in the distributed/grid object model.
> 
> What you want to do with the XML description sounds very similar to
> the
> proposed plugin system for MetaWrap 'Amphibian'. I think I or ajmitch
> showed
> you this last year, not sure
> 
> (Looks like latest version of doxygen mangles the XML)
>
http://www.metawrap.com/projects/server/amphibian/docs/developer/html/mw_ser
> ver_pluginmanager_requirements.html
> 
> The 'clearer' version of this documentation can be found
>
http://metawrap.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/metawrap/server/amphibian/plugin-manager/mw_pm.cpp?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Ok, this looks like a good start. How does it relate to the DGMX? 

Also, what is the way to query the interface of a plugin?

http://metawrap.com/mw.dtd
Where can i get that?

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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