Re: Various newbie questions

Am Donnerstag, den 13.01.2005, 11:58 +0100 schrieb Wolfgang Keller:
> In the scope of a project involving web services in an industrial context
> we made the experience that XML transmission causes quite significant
> delays as soon as you need to transmit actually significant amounts of
> data of an actually significant complexity to an actually significant
> number of users. And I wouldn't want to build just yet another hourglass
> display application (that's what they call SAP in German -
> "SanduhrAnzeigeProgramm") that gets on the users' nerves.

That's why we prepared the infrastructure to allow different transport
layers, and more transport layers will become available as soon as the
need exists and somebody implements it :-)

> >> Durations?
> > 
> > == Time.
> 
> Does that handle days, weeks, months, years (including e.g. that damn 29th
> of february every 4 years)?

No. With "Durations" I interpreted something like "2 hours, 4 minutes
and 20 seconds".

> >> Bit Strings? Binaries (n*bytes)? BLOBs (or links to the filesystem)?
> > 
> > They are definitely missing and somewhere on our TODO list. Main problem
> > was the very different way databases handle blobs.
> 
> A string holding a system-independent representation of a path to the
> filesystem?

Might be an idea.

> > come to the FOSDEM in Bruxelles.
> 
> Hmm. I'll see whether I'll manage to get there. Judging from the content on
> the WWW site, it seems to be more for "hardcore" system developers, and
> that's definitely not what I am (and I don't want to become one ;-). I'm
> rather interested in what applications exist and what a user can do with
> them maybe with a little bit of scripting in a user-friendly way
> (Python!)...
> 
> BTW: There doesn't seem to be a list of "exhibitors"...?

FOSDEM is more of a developer's meeting than an exhibition.

Thanks,
-- 
Reinhard Mueller
GNU Enterprise project
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