Yowsa.
Great stuff.
Makes me wish I had more time to play...
Jack Park wrote:
>
> Eric,
> Like the 1950's GE ads, "progress is our most important product!"
>
> There has been a bunch of learning experience that I have been hinting
> at
> lately. Firstly, I am no longer passing everything through jLinda4 --
> my
> simple java implementation of a Linda server -- Linda being the name
> of an
> invention of David Gelernter and his students at Yale in 1989, a kind
> of
> blackboard that allows asynchronous communication between
> heterogeneous
> processes. He called it Tuple Spaces, and wrote a book _Mirror
> Worlds_. His
> arguments are compelling, so much so that I implemented a version just
> to
> satisfy my need to play with it!
>
> In jpOHS, which, by the way, is content generation/management centric,
> as
> opposed to the navigation centric aspect of HyperScope, there exist
> two
> classes of processes: those that are intended to fill some display
> function -- which are typically blocking, synchronous, and those that
> are
> really background activities, like, say, storing a new occurrence.
> Because
> of all this, it is clear to me that some type of DDOM as suggested by
> Lee
> Iverson is going to be very important. So will a good grove engine.
>
> I should point out here that jpOHS is building on the following
> thesis: XTM,
> the XML Topic Maps markup language should be adequate for serving all
> messaging and persistence activities.
>
> To this end, each "tab" on the GUI, in one way or another, builds
> elements
> of topic maps. No more, no less. In IBIS, you don't use that
> vernacular.
> Instead, you talk in terms of issues, claims, and arguments. But,
> those map
> directly to topic maps, one topic map for each issue. I suppose the
> thesis
> will break eventually, but I haven't found its limit yet.
>
> Because of the need to handle both synchronous and asynchronous
> communication, I have begun to implement a SOAP-like message
> passing/interpreting system. SOAP calls for remote method invocation
> --
> RMI. I'm not presently using that. Rather, each XML message is
> parsed (at
> each end) and the appropriate method is selected by an interpreter.
> Exploration here involves the difference between interpreting and
> using rmi.
> Hope to come up with some metrics by which the tradeoffs (scalability,
> speed) can be assessed. I discuss this a bit more in the latest
> version of
> http://www.thinkalong.com/ohs/jpOHS.pdf
>
> And, I think it appropriate to stress the idea that we need lots more
> experimental implementations, some of which should be instances of
> HyperScopes.
>
> Jack
>
> From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
>
> > Jack Park wrote:
> > >
> > > http://www.thinkalong.com/ohs/jpOHS.pdf
> > > <http://www.thinkalong.com/ohs/jpOHS.pdf>
> > >
> > > The project continues. The spirit of the project rests on the
> notion
> > > that
> > > it is time for many to build variants of an OHS so that we will
> have
> > > lots to
> > > compare and discuss once a "real" OHS gets off the ground.
> > >
> > Wow... Impressive.
> >
> > > I have combined Content and Knowledge into what I call the DKR:
> > > dynamic because everything (in my version) is represented
> > > internally as topic maps...
> > >
> > Sounds good.
> >
> > > InContext, there exists a Topic Maps tab,
> > > an IBIS
> > > tab, and an SDS tab. Later, there will be TSC, Augment, etc,
> tabs.
> > >
> > This is really intriguing.
> >
> > > The
> > > common interlingua between Context and DKR is XML messages, with
> the
> > > "cargo"
> > > written in XTM format. Context, called client, talks to a DKR
> server,
> > > which
> > > couples client to jLinda4, a Linda-like coordination system. From
> > > there,
> > > DKR, which is also a jLinda4 client, process persistence and
> knowledge
> > > issues. By coordinating with jLinda4, the system can accept many
> > > clients,
> > > and many DKR servers. In some sense, jLinda4 becomes a kind of Von
> > > Neumann
> > > bottleneck. Film at 11...on that one:-)
> > >
> > Looking forward to that film.
> >
> > > Progress to date: got client and server to talk to jLinda4.
> Client
> > > and
> > > server (prior to addition of jLinda4) already could manipulate
> topic
> > > maps:
> > > display them, create and edit them, and delete them from the
> > > database. Now,
> > > to get the tuples working!
> > >
> > What is JLinda4, again?
> >
> > and congrats on the progress!
>
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