Re: [Gnumed-devel] are we too freakin' ambitious ?

[Horst Herb]

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On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:01, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> I thought I was shamelessly going to profit from our good
> friends at McMasters (OSCAR).
[...]
> And, no, I don't think we are !

I had again opportunity to talk to David Chan in L.A. the last few days. He is 
a extremely nice fellow, way too humble and modest for what he has already 
achieved.

>From the user's perspective, Oscar is quite impressive and fully functional.
>From the developers perspective, I agree that it is different. Download the 50 
MB whopper and have a play.
Karsten is right that the table structure is not adequate but then, they are 
already running in quite a number of medical facilities! And their web 
interface is the best designed I have seen so far.

The good news: David and I have agreed to start a "project" letting gnumed and 
oscar exchange data, starting with demographic information only. Just to 
prove that we can, and to start an example so that all projects within the 
open source community should do the same, to establish a de-facto standard 
for data exchange in the absence of a true standard.

My suggestion is to do it via XML RPC. I have already written a 
proof-of-concept implementation during the flight, but I am tired and jet 
lagged now and will submit it to CVS after testing it and talking to David re 
comments.

Other options are SOAP and CORBA, for both I can deliver proof-of-concept 
implementations cutted and pasted from others of my projects, but I do like 
the utter simplicity of XML RPC.

Suggestions? Comments?

Horst