OK. But why would one want DNS to be able to respond to an LDAP request? Give me an example of doing a DNS lookup over LDAP or vice versa. These are very different operations, have different API's and have no confusion. To have a service be able to respond intelligently to either requests solves nothing, but requires one to build a more complex application at the expense of creating a "simpler" API. This does nothing for interoperability, because the complexity has simply been moved to the data moving over the API, which then must be processed accordingly. If a single API could do either DNS or LDAP, then one most know ahead of time which is implemented behind the API, or have some other way of discovering this. It is a good idea to minimize the number of API's that need to be supported, but having a single API doesn't do much to help in distributed computing, but to push the problem to a different level.
My opinion anyway, Dave Jan Algermissen wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2005, at 2:42 AM, David Forslund wrote: > > > If every application uses the same RPC or API, it would terribly > > confusing and would result in no interoperability. > > What do youmean by application here? > > I might be misunderstanding you, but I can only see a gain in > interoperability if avery application uses the same API (aka uniform > interface). Why would this be confusing and result in *no* > interoperability? > > > Jan > > ________________________________________________________________________ > _______________ > Jan Algermissen, Consultant & Programmer > http://jalgermissen.com > Tugboat Consulting, 'Applying Web technology to enterprise IT' > http://www.tugboat.de > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
