Re: Should Inline be private in the private part of a package spec?

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 15.08.12 13:55, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:08:37 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
>> I would say that a network connecting the electrical devices
>> of a car does not counts as heterogeneous.
> 
> How are the ECU, navigation system, ABS, windshield wiper homogenous?

They are homogeneous in that the 4 suppliers agree to be supplying
for the same 1 system, under the "umbrella-notion" of car
electronics.

Chances are that "it is understood" that the ways of data
communication in a car meet the expectations of electrical
engineering that all suppliers share. They will, I bet, all agree
that a PDF document sent to a windshield wiper will not be the most
effective way of controlling the thing.

A heterogeneous system in this sense is one where a supplier will
supply data to, say, anything, irrespective of how any one client is
going to process the data.  The umbrella-notion is different. Again,
PDFs may not be welcome as a carrier of data (although this happens).
XML documents allow for much better independent processing of data;
facilitating easy integration of data from very different sources,
sources even, whose existence you may want to hide from each other.

Joining the two worlds, some measuring instrument at a service
station, of any make and model, could be connected to the internet
to supply measurement statistics to just any contemporary business
information system.  The recipient gets to choose how to process the
data, but the mechanics of processing is already in place; no
worries about protocols, no questions regarding syntax.