Re: Banging the identity drum again, this time REST-style

Are Gulbrandsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xtm.general
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Hi

On 24. nov. 2010, at 02.21, Murray Altheim wrote:
> One of the things missing in a lot of communities is an open
> source reference implementation of the primary specifications.
> We almost had that with tm4j and perhaps are approaching that
> with Ontopia (though that is a commercial product).

Why the comment "(though that is a commercial product)"?

It's not a commercial product. It was, but has been Open Sourced, - and that is a strength in my opinion. It has proven itself in some very serious real world applications. Ontopia have active committers in at least 4 different European countries. 

In what way is Ontopia a lesser candidate than tm4j was. I know that you had a special relationship with tm4j (and I respect that), but I evaluated it and never found it ready for a real application. My opinion is that Ontopia as a tool always has been far beyond what tm4j ever was.


Best Regards,
Are D. Gulbrandsen
The XML-group,
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo
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