Re: Making Progress...

[Markus Fleck-Graffe]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:04:42AM -0700, Charles Goodwin wrote:
> Is there any written specifications / documentation yet for Glue?  There's
> nothing on the glue sf page.

GLUE's core requirements correspond to those defined by Douglas Engelbart,
the original 60's "inventor" of groupware:

  http://bootstrap.org/augment/ALLIANCE/980.html

While not complete, Engelbart's "OHS Technology Template" gives a good
overview of the system (or framework) that is also envisioned for GLUE.

GLUE will build heavily on the web's "low-level" protocols, such as HTTP,
basically following the design philosophy for which Roy Fielding has
recently coined the term "REST":

  http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/

Note that REST is a different philisophy that XML-RPC/SOAP: REST is based
on URL namespace design rather than remote function calls:

  http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/05/08/deviant.html

It turns out that GLUE and phpGroupWare are very different projects,
after all.

Yours,
Markus.