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

[Michael Dickson]

I'd be fine with that (especially if it would solve a contentious 
issue).  We reuse only a small part of CosProperyService at this point 
so there's not a strong argument to keep it.  I've always preferred to 
reuse CosXXX interfaces but theres a clear sentiment against that in the 
community and this is a pretty justifiable case.

Mike

Juha Muilu wrote:

>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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