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June 11, 2006
Fast Infoset does NOT require ASN.1
It is hard to correct misconceptions, but let me try:
Fast Infoset does not require a ASN.1 toolkit.
The misconception probably arises because the
ITU-T Rec. X.891 | ISO/IEC 24824-1 Specification
uses the ASN.1 descriptive formalism and because it
was done by the same ISO / ITU-T group that worked over the years on ASN.1,
but there is no required dependency - for instance the
Implementation in Project GlassFish does not use ASN.1 at all.
| I'm mentioning this because of Paul's latest blog on There has been good recent progress on Fast Infoset, including |
The picture is one of the
Cray 2
of of the classical-style
Super Computer used in complex
scientific computations.
A different tackle on handling computationally intensive problems focuses not just on
the actual run-time but on the design-to-result time in DARPA's
High Productivity Computing Intiative,
including
Sun's Efforts.