the missing link - BIL

re: the missing link - BIL

Kenneth LeFebvre — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:56:36 GMT

Have you read the book "Web Service Faceplates" by Mohr, Corning, et al? [1] While they describe a rather static UI-oriented faceplate idea, I have often dreamt of a way to incorporate behavior in the faceplate in addition to mere UI, thus achieving a similar result as you describe, I think, without requiring changes to whatever language you might choose to implement with.

I like the direction you're headed with this train of thought... I just think there might be a way to get there without requiring that we wait for a new language. :)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861007027/

re: the missing link - BIL

bill — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:33:52 GMT

nah the love of the language is what I want named after me Behavioural Informative Language Love ;)

as to the dynamic nature, well the behaviour itself can point to a service

re: the missing link - BIL

Geoff Appleby — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:28:03 GMT

I've got you all figured out man. You just want a programming language that's named after you! :P

Interesting idea. I'd hate to do the validation myself, but if a framework surrounded it such that from my own code i could query to see what the current values of the requirements are, then that would be quite neat.

I can understand how a much richer schema definition can enable to code better against it, but how does it become dynamic. Just because it's more descriptive, that doesn't do anything to help when a data structure is changed at the service definition to require an extra (new) mandatory field.