pull in tens of thousands of lines of library code...
Nobody's forcing you to pull in any more code for one rendering than another - the Google GData clients have code for working with all of their 16 services and are Apache licensed
As I said this morning, GData libraries do exist for many platforms, but are not universal, and do run to tens of thousands of lines of code. I'm worried having a library of this size as a key dependency for OCCI when we could go with a much lighter meta-model (in either JSON or XML) and not require the library. All existing cloud APIs (Amazon, Sun, GoGrid, ElasticHosts, etc.) have specified their APIs directly over HTTP rather than over a pre-existing meta model. Should we really be pulling in a dependency which is this large when we have a clear choice not to? Richard.