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Re: MIME vs Media Type

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:46:57 +0200

Jerome Louvel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Concerning the naming, MIME means Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, it
> is a standard to extend the format of emails:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
>
> Internet media type is now the preferred naming for "MIME type" or "Content
> type" (HTTP) as explained here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type
>
> IANA maintains the official registry of Internet/MIME media types at:
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
>
> Therefore, I propose to rename:
> - @ProduceMime to @ProduceMediaType
> - @ConsumeMime to @ConsumeMediaType
>

I agree "Media" would be more accurate than "Mime".


> Note that I still prefer the more flexible @Input and @Output annotations,
> but this is the topic of another discussion.
>

I will reply in another email on this.

Paul.

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