[Xesam] RFC: Current State of Xesam and Future Plans

Arun Raghavan arunisgod at gmail.com
Mon May 19 02:08:45 PDT 2008


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
<mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> Ok, might as well give my own perception of our situation then :-) My own
> limited knowledge will hopefully provoke someone to elaborate...

Drat, you beat me to it. :)

> Beagle:
>  * API completeness: Complete

It's actually at RC1. I need to make an update.

>  * Onto support: Support for a limited subset of the onto. Most common
> fields can be expected to work.

Check.

>  * XML Query support: Check

Check, with the exception that grouping of AND and OR is broken
(extremely non-trivial to fix, doesn't seem worth it for now).

>  * User Search Lang. support: Actually just use the standard Beagle search
> language, which is close enough to the Xesam USL so that users might never
> notice the difference

Yep.

>  * Roadmap: Anticipate Xesam developments and quality of the API. If deemed
> good move the xesam-adaptor into Beagle's core

Check. We had a couple of people using the code, but I'm waiting for
more feedback/adoption before making the move.

Best,
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