> OMG HDTF: PIDS, COAS, RAD, LQS
In case anyone else is looking for these, this message provides pointers
to them - they are nigh-on impossible to find just be navigating around
the OMG Web site: http://www.omg.org/archives/healthcare/msg01716.html
However, the documents all refer to CORBA interfaces. Are there
equivalent SOAP and WSDL interface definitions? CORBA might be superior
to SOAP and WSDL, but it nevertheless lost the marketing battle. CORBA
interface libraries for popular open source languages are also far less
well supported and maintained than SOAP libraries eg SOAP libraries for
PHP, Python, Ruby, Java etc are all available as standard, installable
packages for the popular Linux distributions. Not so with CORBA
libraries. That is a big consideration when it comes to deployment and
support of systems.
And then there is the patent threat which Tim Cook points out. It is
pretty blatant: the OMG specification document says that readers are
granted perpetual, royalty-free copyright licenses to implement the
specifications described in software, but the very next paragraph warns
that the companies contributing to the specifications might sue your
socks off for breach of unspecified patents if you do implement the
specifications. If I asked our legals about this, I am sure they would
say that there is no way we should implement such specs due to the legal
risk involved, evinced by the thinly veiled threat in the preface to
each of the documents.
Back to square one.
Tim C
> Tim.Churches wrote:
> > David Forslund wrote:
> > > What we have done shouldn't be the issue at all. What is important is
> > > that there has been standards
> > > in this area for some time (98-00). I've heard people complain that
> > > they were too complex, but I've not heard
> > > people complain that they are incomplete (although I believe they are).
> > > I claim the specs aren't
> > > too complex for the task that is required of them. Almost all the
> > > things in the spec (particularly
> > > taking into account differing conformance criteria) have to be done
> > anyway.
> >
> > Which specs are you referring to, Dave?
> >
> > Tim C
> >
>
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