FW: oBIX Progress: Review and Toolkits and IP

Ken,

Glad to hear oBIX is such a draw. It might help if you 
could put together some interview questions for our review. We could decide 
whether it would be easiest to do a phone interview or just write out our 
answers for publication. What kinds of things do you think your readers want to 
know?

Thanks,

Carol

 

_________________________________
Carol Geyer
Director of 
Communications
OASIS
+1.978.667.5115 x209 

 

 

-----Original 
Message-----
From: Sinclair 
[mailto:] 
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 12:37 PM
To: 'Considine, Toby (Facilities Technology 
Office)'; 
Cc: 'Dee Schur'; 'Aaron Hansen'; 
; 'jane'
Subject: RE: oBIX Progress: Review and 
Toolkits and IP

 

Toby

 

How can we best get this information to our 
readers?

 

Not sure if you notice but this was our favourite 
article for May in our magazine.

http://www.automatedbuildings.com/news/may06/articles/obix/060425112552obix.htm

 

Thanks Aaron We know it was your writing skills not the 
subject matter that made it the favourite J

 

Our readers are very interested in 
oBIX.

 

For our May issue we had 111,443 visits to the web site 
with our highest ever downloads and over a million hits. 

Converging Industries are very interested in what you 
have to say.

 

Can someone for oBIX or OASIS put this technical mumbo 
jumbo in to words with links for those that need to know more for our readers in 
a interview or article for our July issue?

 

Aaron did a great job in his May article let us do it 
again.

 

Thanks

 

Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner

http://www.automatedbuildings.com



250-656-5378

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Considine, Toby 
(Facilities Technology Office) [mailto:] 
Sent: 
1-Jun-06 8:55 AM
To: 
Cc: Dee Schur; 
Sinclair
Subject: oBIX Progress: Review and Toolkits and IP

 

 There is some important oBIX news that I am not 
going to make you meet

to hear:

 

1) The XML committee has released a v0.12.0 draft. Aaron 
has requested a

little more time for what he refers to as typos, but if 
you have a

show-stopping comment, post it for us to 
see.

 

2) Brian has updated his open-source oBIX toolkit. See 
message below.

 

3) There is apparently a 30 day waiting period between 
when a committee

requests a transition in IP policy and when the official 
organizational

vote takes place.  While we may have voted several 
times on this, the

vote at the F2F in Palm 
Springs counts as the organizational vote to

request the change in IP. Blame the confusion on 
procedure on me.

 

As a point of order, the vote in (3) has nothing to do 
with when we vote

to release the draft (0.12.1?)as a proposed 1.0 for 
public review. That

will require 60 days before we respond to comments, so 
the process in

(3) will be complete before then in any 
case.

 

tc

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Brian Frank [mailto:] 

Sent: Thursday, June 01, 
2006 11:26 AM

To: 

Subject: [obix-xml] oBIX Java Toolkit v0.12.0 
posted

 

I posted v0.12.0 of the oBIX Java Toolkit to 
SourceForge:

 

  
http://sourceforge.net/projects/obix

 

This brings the open source toolkit up to the latest 
version of the spec

and sports a new alarm console which works off 
an

obix:AlarmSubject.feed.

 

I also did a lot of work on how to map arbitrary 
contract lists into

strongly typed Java classes.  In the end I do what 
I always do when I

find the Java language too limiting - I assemble classes 
on the fly.

This turns out to be a pretty cool feature because you 
can mix and match

contracts on the fly and still get nice Java interface 
wrappers:

 

  Obj obj = ObixDecoder.fromString("<enum 
is='obix:Point

obix:History'/>");

  verify(obj instanceof 
obix.Enum);

  verify(obj instanceof 
obix.contracts.Point);

  verify(obj instanceof 
obix.contracts.History);                        

 

Take a look at index.html for more 
details.

 

Change Log Version 0.12.0 (1 Jun 06)

 - Support for latest 0.12 object model 
(feeds)

 - ObixSession support for batch 
requests

 - Obixc generates only interfaces with contract 
fields

 - Dynamic class generation for contract 
mapping

 - obix.ui.View support for watches (with automatic 
cleanup)

 - AlarmConsoleView on 
obix:AlarmSubject

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