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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Survey: Catalysis Templates
 Hi Eliot, Eliot said: I ask because I think that Frameworks as defined by Catalysis are similar to, if not identical to the concept of document architectures as defined in the HyTime standard. I'm wondering whether or not talking about "frameworks" or "model templates" would mean more to the typical XML developer than does talking about "architectures". Didier reply: I am currently studying Catalyst so, before saying anything about it I'll have to master it. However, concerning the architecture, we can say that we have more an inheritance relationship between our particular document structure and the "Architecture". Because of this kind of relationship, we can say that we have here something that resemble a lot a particular pattern (ref: Gamma & al.): the interface pattern. For some, a Framework is a particular assembly of patterns targeted to a particular domain. So, I guess that it all depends on the architecture scope to call it a "pattern", a "base structure" (that we inherit from so this makes the architecture resemble the interface notion) and finally a "framework". I guess that because of the scope of Hytime we can probably call that a framework applied to the linkage domain. This said, thanks for bringing the subject because, for me, "architectures" are closer to "interface" like found in C++ base classes or Java interfaces. And what is an interface after all? In its simplest form, we can say that it is a contract that assure the client that, even if an implementation does something totally differently than an other one, we still have the same way to interact with all the implementations. So, for example, if I have a particular document structure (all the elements have names totally different than Hytime) an Hytime apps can still interact with my document structure. Thus, the concept is similar to the notion of interface. Thinking loud, I would say that a particular Hytime link is like an interface and if I want to interact with a varlink, I interact with the "interface" instead of the implementation (which could be for instance a topic map "assoc" element). However, the collection of interfaces that compose the linkage domain could probably be called a framework. But because we deal here more with data than methods, a "data template framework" seems a good way to call this. We have to be cautious, framework for Object oriented guys also implies behavior because a framework, most of the time is an aggregate of interfaces and these interfaces are objects. Therefore the access to the object is a mix of properties and methods. So, finally, "data template framework" seems a good candidate here (no implicit notion of behavior). Simple opinion of a guys with a bad cold and who hate to be sick :-) Cheers Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@n... http://www.netfolder.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) 
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