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Wow... within minutes of posting the
GI2S, I not only got a link from Dave and helpful suggestions
and corrections from Simon Fell and Peter Drayton, but also
a clone.
I was not previously familiar with Hessian or Burlap... but based
on my reading of this weblog alone, I agree with some and disagree
with some of the points made. I agree that binary does
not equate to complex. But adding a parameter does not
necessarily imply implit overloading... it could mean defaults (see
Coping with Change for more info). Finally, it
appears that these protocols don't have the ability to select the
object to access or
specify data types - these may be a valid tradeoffs, but
represent simplifications at the expense of functionallity.