[oslc-core] programmatic selection of creation factories

[Arthur Ryman]

Dave,

For a given rdf:type, you can have different Shapes for different use 
cases. Many Shapes could apply to the same rdf:type.

Regards, 
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From:
David M Johnson <dmjohnso at us.ibm.com>
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Date:
06/04/2010 12:01 PM
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Re: [oslc-core] programmatic selection of creation factories
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-----Arthur Ryman <ryman at ca.ibm.com> wrote: -----
To: Nick Edgar <Nick_Edgar at ca.ibm.com>
From: Arthur Ryman <ryman at ca.ibm.com>
Date: 06/03/2010 08:55PM
Cc: David M Johnson/Raleigh/IBM at IBMUS, Jim des Rivieres 
<Jim_des_Rivieres at ca.ibm.com>, John Wiegand/Minneapolis/IBM at IBMUS, 
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Subject: Re: [oslc-core] programmatic selection of creation factories

The Shape has a property, oslc:describes, that refers to the type. The 
type doesn't change between implementations, but the Shape resource could 
since implementations could add properties to the type.

I think we may be overstepping by associating types with shapes. Shapes 
should be provided for targeted use cases (creation and query) and not 
tied to types. That's why I (improperly) deleted oslc:describes before.

Now that we have consensus to use identifiers for programmatic selection 
of creation factories, query capabilities and delegated UI dialogs (a 
proposal is forthcoming) we don't need oslc:describes to determine which 
to use.

Do we have other use cases for oslc:describes? Do we have some outside of 
reporting?

Thanks,
- Dave
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