[topicmapmail] ANN: TMAPI 1.0 alpha release

[Steve Pepper]

Kal,

This is excellent news. Thanks for the work you have put
into TMAPI - I think it is going to be of great benefit to
the whole TM community.

I have one question (as a non-Java programmer :-)

As I recall, earlier versions of TMAPI were heavily influenced
by the XTM syntax and included terms like "member", which are
not considered to be part of the underlying Topic Maps Data
Model.[1] From a quick glance it seems that you have tidied up
all of this and now follow the TMDM much more closely.

Can you confirm that that is the case? I think it's very
important that TMAPI is completely syntax-independent. Too
many people confuse the syntax with the underlying model as
it is!

Thanks.

Steve

[1] http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-model/

--
Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>
Chief Strategy Officer, Ontopia
Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3
Editor, XTM (XML Topic Maps 1.0)


| TMAPI is a proposed common programming interface for topic map
| processors. The goal of TMAPI is to allow developers to learn and use
| just one programming API for work with any topic map processing engine -
| improving code portability and reducing learning curve. TMAPI is public
| domain software free from any restriction on its use.
| 
| After a long hiatus, work on TMAPI has finally progressed to our first
| major public release. This is the 1.0 alpha release which is now
| available for download from our SourceForge project page [1]. We welcome
| review and feedback from any interested party. Please note that TMAPI
| *is not* a complete topic map processor - it is an interface
| specification. Also, please be aware that we have not yet created
| documentation beyond the UML and the (reasonably well documented)
| Javadoc - this is planned to be part of the beta release in two or three
| weeks time.
| 
| Cheers,
| 
| Kal
| 
| [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmapi/
| 
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