[MOBY-l] Quick survey of opinions on query structure

[Martin Senger]

Mark,
   I am sorry to bother you and the list with probably obvious, and 
long-time ago solved/answered questions. But sometimes it's easier to 
ask... :-)
   The question is why do we need MOBY's Object at all? My understanding
is (please correct me) that the Moby Object is a wrapper around the real
data sent to a service (and received again from a service). The Moby
registration features can guarantee that a service gets always onlty data
of a type it understands, which is good, but why the data has to be
wrapped in a MOBY-specific XML wrapper? Because sending data wrapped means 
that a service must understand them, therefore any service must be first 
MOBY-ized. Is that correct?

   Thanks,
   Martin

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