[MOBY-dev] [moby] Re: error installing Biomoby via ant

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:47:37 -0700, Edward Kawas <edward.kawas at gmail.com>  
wrote:


> While I am at it, a wise man once said that "if you 'inherit' from Object
> and don't add any new fields, then you have used the Object ontology
> incorrectly." Hmm, actually I think Mark said this ;-)


Yes, I did... and I still believe it!  The "exception" is with the  
IRRI/GCP objects, but they have willingly accepted the limitations to  
interoperability that this decision creates.


> For instance, if you have a service that consumes SOTest_DNA, do you  
> really
> mean that the service consumes DNASequence under the namespace SOTest?


Without even LOOKING at the service, I bet my first-born that Eddie is  
right...  The confusion of object and namespace is quite common,  
unfortunately :-(

M