[MOBY-dev] Cleaning up the Object ontology - Inheriting from base Object

[Pieter Neerincx]

Hi all,

I'm with Martin here. I have quite a few Objects that inherit from  
the base Object without having any HAS or HASA relationships. Most of  
them are very generic things like for example "Program", "DataBase"  
and "User". They can have different IDs and have different namespaces  
depending on the service they are used for. And the namespace alone  
is not enough. Within the same namespace I can have multiple things  
which are only an ID, but one pointing to a user and another pointing  
to a program and I think it's to be able to see the difference  
directly from the name of the element instead of adding all kind of  
child elements that only cause more overhead in XML parsing.

Just my € 2c,

Pi

On 17-Feb-2006, at 1:19 AM, Martin Senger wrote:

>> Here is my position statement - please feel free to attack it or  
>> support
>> it:
>>
>    I am not going to attack it, and I am far away from supporting it.
>
>> Statement:  Any Object that is registered as deriving from base  
>> Object,
>> without any HAS or HASA relationships, should be considered invalid.
>>
>    My position is clear here, and without any heat in my heart (my  
> heart
> has already burned in the pre-xmas discussion you mentioned) I just  
> state
> that this is unacceptable for me.
>
>> My proposal:  The Registry should trap attempts to register  
>> Objects that
>> derive from base Object without any additional syntactic  
>> complexity, and
>> refuse to register them.
>>
>    Which would mean (IMO), at least, to loose quite a chunk of Biomoby
> users and developers.
>
>    Martin
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