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 and a XML Schema that provides one representation for the data model.
5. Requests
6. Responses
7. 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.