On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com> wrote:
>
...
> A good example of increased coupling was (i dunno if it is now) the
> OpenSocial API which Roy commented on [1]. IIRC OpenSocial mandated that
> each implementation use the same URI structure, rather than letting each
> implementation define their own, with OpenSocial defining the media types
> and link relationships.
...
Not that I know the issue well, but could this be seen more as
convention-based approach, which actually has its benefits (wrt
convention-over-configuration)? That is, sometimes it is good to trade
in flexibility if it can be used to remove required configuration and
simplifies other aspects of system (in this case reduces amount of
automatic discovery one has to do).
-+ Tatu +-