[MOBY-dev] Concrete examples

[Duncan Hull]

Hi Mark

I'm just re-submitting these questions in case the last lot got forgotten.

Duncan

> Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> I haven't thought about it deeply enough to realize all of the
>> consequences of this limitation, but it does certainly mean that you may
>> need to do several queries against the registry if you wish to fully
>> decompose your object and discover all possible services that could
>> operate on any sub-component of it.
>>
> This is interesting.
>
> Can you give some *concrete* examples of the following
>
> 1. Decomposing objects
> 2. Discovering all possible services that could operate on any 
> sub-component of it
> 3. The ISA, HAS, HASA relationships
> (in addition to the abstract definitions of
> HAS - contains one or more instances of...
> HASA - contains exactly one instance of...
> ISA - inherits from...)
>
> This would be very useful for me (and I hope other moby-devs) as I'm 
> trying to understand whats going on here.
>
> Duncan