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Mark, Sorry Mark, you already posted the link to CEA! Steve. -----Original Message----- From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Taylor Sent: 04 October 2004 15:21 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: IVOA general notes On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Norman Gray wrote: > Steve, > > On 2004 Oct 4 , at 13.41, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote: > > > Is there any documentation on the CEA -- Common Execution Architecture? > > > > How does it differ from say CORBA > > (http://www.omg.org/library/wpjava.html)? > > I assume that the difference is the addition of a parameter system? If nothing else (and there's probably plenty else) it is intentionally much more restrictive than CORBA. > I wasn't aware of any documentation, until Mark posted the link earlier > in this thread. > > I'd never heard of it. When Guy was talking about it, he seemed to > suggest that this had been out for eighteen months, and I felt rather > foolish for having missed it so completely. Since Paul Harrison's > draft is version 0.1, dated 2004-09-27, I don't feel so bad.... Had > anyone heard of it, in contacts with AG? I hadn't seen anything substantive - might possibly have heard some reference to it, but of so vague a nature that I wouldn't have been able to state any facts about it (perfect bit of VO technology then!). Mark -- Mark Taylor Starlink Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK [log in to unmask] +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/