OPULS Development

OPULS Process

Design Proposal Process

DAP4 Features

This is a straw man design, broken down into sections. It is incomplete and its content is subject to revision.

1. Versions
2. Checksum
3. DAP Service Terminus
4. Data Model
5. DAP4 XML Schema
6. Requests
7. Responses
8. Web Services

Proposals

These proposals have been put forth by Dennis:

1. XML Use in DAP4 New (Modified: 2/25/2012)
2. Grids Delenda Est Under Consideration
3. Constraints and Shared Dimensions New, closely related to Grids Delenda Est (New 02/26/2012)
4. Ideas for the On-The-Wire Format New
5. Characterization of URL Annotations New (Modified: 2/26/2012)
6. DAP4 DDX Grammar New
7. DAP4: DDX Lexical Elements New
8. Ideas for Defining VLens (and Sequences) New (New 02/25/2012)
9. Possible Notation for Server Commands New (New 02/26/2012)

OPULS references

• http://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/10/25/web_api_versioning_smackdown

Old DAP4 Design and Implementation

• DAP3/4
• DAP 4.0 Design and DAP 4.0 Essential Features The design is meant to be a complete document while essential features are the minimal see we want to release. Since this task has been stalled for nearly a year, doing the latter seems like a noble goal.