Re: [regrep] New Proposal: User Defined Objects

[Duane Nickull <duane@xmlglobal.com>]

I concur with Farrukh's thinking.  We have had a few business inquiries
on our v 1.0 registry where this was on the customer wish list.  Having
a truly extensible Registry meets the needs of businesses.

Duane Nickull


Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> 
> Team,
> 
> Below is a first attempt to describe a new proposal for V3.
> 
> The current RIM allows for attribute extensibility but not object type
> extensibility.
> This means that if someone wants to use teh registry for storing
> specialized fine
> graned meta-data, they have to store each datum as an ExtrinsicObject/
> repository item pair.
> This is very inefficient. Imagine an application that uses the registry
> to as a place to keep
> a shared issue list (Nikola's idea). Each issue would be an
> ExtrinsicObject/repository item.
> 
> The proposal, enables a new class in RIM called UserDefinedObject which
> is a sub-class
> of RegistryObject. A UserDefinedObject has an attribute named className
> of type String.
> In case of Nikola's example the user would create an instance of a
> UserDefinedType with
> className of "Issue". They would then add slots defined for the Issues
> class (e.g. "issueNumber",
> "submitter", "submissonDate", "status" etc.).
> 
> The result is that the issues can be stored as light-weight user defined
> metadata instead
> of extrinsicobject/repository items pairs.
> 
> I believe that this proposal if implemented would increase the utility
> and useability of our registry
> in a significant way.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Farrukh
> 
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