[Biocorba-l] CosProperty and qualifiers (was: CosProperty...)

[Juha Muilu]

It seems that in the possible new IDL version the CosProprties are only
used with Annotation.qualifiers, as already defined in the BSA

The qualifiers are needed to maintain compatibility with the EMBL FT
format (please correct me if I am wrong). So perhaps we can then just
start to use strings for the values instead of anys? ...Or then get rid
of the qualifiers...? Qualifiers may be as bad thing as the composite
annotations?




Martin Senger wrote:
> 
> >
> > If I understand you correctly, then you are proposing to only use:
> >
> >   typedef string PropertyName;
> >   struct Property {
> >     PropertyName property_name;
> >     any property_value;
> >   };
> >
> > No PropertySet, PropertySetFactory, none of the iterators etc. ?
> >
>    Correct! Exactly correct. [I think that there is also a list of
> "Property".]
> 
> > If this is the case then I see absolutely no negative effects except the
> > distinct possiblity that this could be an evil and subtle OMG plot to
> > inch us closer to implementing the whole of Cos* one teensy bit at a
> > time ;>
> >
>    Even this distinct possibility depends totally on us - the OMG members
> - because "The OMG are us" (there are no "they") :-)
> 
>    Martin
> 
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