On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Alexander Papaspyrou <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:alexander.papaspyrou@tu-dortmund.de">alexander.papaspyrou@tu-dortmund.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sam,<br>
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Am 15.05.2009 um 13:02 schrieb Sam Johnston:<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Also playing nice with other standards includes OGF standards of course... is it safe to say these are mostly/soley done in XML?<br>
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yes. OGF is XML for data representation and WS* for service interfaces. While I agree that we should stay clean from the latter, I see no reason for rebuilding the features of the former just for the sake of avoiding to use it.<br>

</blockquote><div><br>+1<br><br>I&#39;d be interested to hear what Tim&#39;s thoughts are now he knows the bigger picture. JSON makes absolute sense for the Sun Cloud, where its purpose is to expose the functionality of a specific product, but less so when we need to expose the current and future functionality of every product.<br>
<br>Sam<br><br></div></div><br>