[OSLC] Generating language bindings for the OSLC interfaces

[Martin Nally]

Has anyone outlined what those bindings would look like? Don't all the
languages already have API for GET/PUT/POST/DELETE? The goal of a
REST-based design would be that there is nothing beyond this except the
ability to understand the domain-specific resource formats. An RDF library
might be useful for this. What else would be useful?

Best regards, Martin

Martin Nally, IBM Fellow
CTO and VP, IBM Rational
tel: (949)544-4691



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  |Steve K Speicher/Raleigh/IBM at IBMUS                                                                                                                |
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  |community at open-services.net                                                                                                                       |
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  |02/03/2010 08:29 AM                                                                                                                               |
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  |community-bounces at open-services.net                                                                                                               |
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Andy,

For CM domain I see it playing out as #1 as most of the interfaces define
deeper semantics on REST style hat can't be exposed easily in most commonly
available tools that I'm aware of.   We see this now with Eclipse Mylyn and
their exposure of a consumer Java API.  I see JavaScript bindings to be of
interest as well.  I have not heard of any C#/C++ requests as of yet,
though PHP (as a service provider) I have.  Now speaking for Rational
products that use the CM interfaces, we utilize common code (both Java and
JS) which has been manually developed.

Regards,
Steve Speicher | IBM Rational Software | (919) 254-0645


ajberner at us.ibm.com wrote on 02/03/2010 05:14:14 AM:

> To use the OSLC interfaces effectively, client programmers need an easy
way
> to get 3GL language bindings to program against the interface.  In
> practice, most ALM tools, which are the prime candidates to use the
> interfaces, would benefit from either a Java or C# binding.  I can
imagine
> two ways of getting these bindings:
>
> a) For each interface, someone in the community, or a group of members,
> produce the binding by hand and maintain it as the interface evolves
>
> b) Clients use a set of commonly available tools to generate bindings
>
> Can someone from each workgroup comment, please, on how this can be
> addressed for the interface under development?  Which language bindings
are
> of interest (testing my hypothesis that Java and C# will suffice for most
> of the community)?
>
> Andy Berner
> Lead Architect, ISV Technical Enablement and Strategy
> IBM Rational Business Development
> 972 561-6599
> ajberner at us.ibm.com
>
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> http://www.ibm.com/isv/rational/readyfor.html
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