[Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA Spec

[Juha Muilu]

You are right. I  did not meant it to be taken that way. Sorry about the 
sentence. Of course it is better to code and think and then reiterate 
rather than just write stupid off the ground diagrams.

I know that people have thought a lot about the design issues etc. 
before and along the coding. What I meant is that it would be nice to 
pull all that good knowledge and work under the same roof. It was just a 
thought.


Alan Robinson wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Juha Muilu wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wonder is the open-bio too sql specific? How people feel about 
>>discussing fist on conceptual level using UML and the going to detailed 
>>implementation issues (to sql, xml and idl...)? I belive that people are 
>>reiterating same things all over again in the platform specific 
>>groups... I understand that that there are pressures to go other way 
>>round though
>>
> 
> The issue is that the modelling atempts in bio* have sometimes turned into
> protracted "navel gazing" exercises. Working directly in SQL has lead to a
> useful & working system quickly that solved immediate problems for users.
> If you're dissatisfied with this, consider it extreme programming & that
> this SQL implementation is the requirements gathering & understanding
> phase.
> 
> C'est la vie.
> 
> Alan.
> 
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