RE: Re: NOW xAP / Outlook / PrioritisationWAS HomeDisplay- sound?

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Stuart,

I think that a modification to point 2 is a potential GOOD reason for
making it a header item.

xAP isn't inherently FIFO at all. It's inherently connectionless.

However, a transport-bridge (say from ethernet to master-slave serial)
WOULD be FIFO, and the ability for IT to prioritise is something that's
better done in the header?

What say you, Patrick, Ray - it's OPTIONAL, after all.


M.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Poulton [mailto:swp@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 August 2002 15:22
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: NOW xAP / Outlook / PrioritisationWAS
HomeDisplay- sound?


Patrick,

I think I see what you are saying ........

A couple of points

1) I think yourself and MarkH are talking on a different level in terms
of technical understanding, and this is perhaps causing some confusion
I
know I am confused.

2) Currently is see xAP of having the problem that it's FIFO, there is
now way of prioritising a list of messages if a large number of mesages
arive in a short time.

We're currently very focused on the display stuff, which is great,
gives
instant results, be we do perhps need to stpe back and look at the
bigger picture ? For example the appication of Home Automation.

It's easy for poeple with good coding skills and the time, to re-write
code to handle changes and additions, but others might just have got
there "plg-in" working only to find something has changed, as
I've said
it's an optional xAP header, BUT every output plugin MUST act on it if
it is there.

Stuart




On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 15:03, PatrickLidstone wrote:
> --- In ukha_d@y..., "Mark Harrison"
<Mark.Harrison@e...> wrote:
> > I can see how it might be a flag within the Outlook plugin. As
> such, it's up to the Outlook plugin developer (oh - that's me)
> > 
> > Are you saying it should be in the xAP-header as an optional
item?
> > 
> 
> If it's reflecting application semantics, it shouldn't be in the
xAP-
> header, but in the message body.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
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