Mike Edwards wrote:
> Folks,
>
> ant elder wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> Having both the last two sentences start "This software will..." doesn't
>> sound perfect to me so if we are able to move the "for distribution
>> at no
>> charge..." bit up to the top that seems better, which gives:
>>
>> ...establish a Project Management Committee charged with the
>> creation and maintenance of open-source software for distribution
>> at no charge to the public, that simplifies the development,
>> deployment and management of distributed applications composed of
>> independently acting, loosely coupled, linguistically heterogeneous
>> components connected using any of a wide range of communication
>> technologies. This software will implement relevant open standards
>> including, but not limited to, standards defined by the OASIS
>> OpenCSA group.
>>
>> That first sentence is starting to get quite long but unless anyone
>> can come
>> up with some better wording I could live with that.
>>
>> ...ant
>>
> I'm sorry, but I don't find this wording at all convincing. I suspect
> that most people would be mystified by the section:
>
> "distributed applications composed of independently acting, loosely
> coupled, linguistically heterogeneous components connected using any
> of a wide range of communication technologies"
>
> So, let me try another version, which turns out to be longer, but I
> hope that it is easier to comprehend. I also explicitly mention SCA
> and SDO since these are two core standards that are implemented by
> Tuscany.
>
> "...establish a Project Management Committee charged with the
> creation and maintenance of open-source software for distribution
> at no charge to the public, that simplifies the development,
> deployment and management of distributed applications built as
> compositions of service components, where the components may be
> written using any of a wide range of programming languages and where
> the components can be connected using any of a wide range of
> communication technologies. This software will implement relevant open
> standards
> including, but not limited to, the SCA and SDO standards defined by
> the OASIS OpenCSA member section."
>
>
> Yours, Mike.
>
This version looks better to me. I was a little mystified by the
"linguistically heterogeneous" part as well :) I like the "built as
compositions of service components" which describes well what we do in
Tuscany and the fact that you explicitly mention the SCA and SDO standards.
--
Jean-Sebastien
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