perfsonar development work

[Roman Lapacz <>]

Jeff W. Boote wrote:
> Jeff W. Boote wrote:
> > First of all, I'm fine with multiple parameters blocks inside a 
> > 'key'. (Key's are supposed to be opaque, so as far as I'm concerned a 
> > service can put whatever they want inside them. Clients should not be 
> > looking inside anyway.)
>
>
> BTW. I would like to point out that there is no reason to use XML 
> inside the key. It might make more sense to have the data inside a key 
> be the most trivially serializable set of data for the specific 
> language you are developing in. (For example JSON, or Java 
> Properties...) By using XML here, you are forcing updates to the NMWG 
> objects to support these things - and this really is an implementation 
> specific feature.

Interesting idea. I think all depends on a certain service and its 
implementation. For example, in case of Java RRD MA (or SQL MA) the xml 
is very convenient: well-known, simple and also processing is easy.


Roman