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Re: Efficacy of rule specification, processing

2001-06-11 16:52:53

"Maciocco, Christian" wrote:
 
It looks like that by inserting state variables about external environment
into the rules we're expecting the OPES device to control services behavior.
I think that the OPES device should instead only decide whether or not a
service needs to be launched and have the service itself take care about
adapting to dynamic behavior, for example by communicating the required
information to the service itself.

Hm, what about a scenario in which the same service is available
locally (i.e. on the OPES device) as well as remotely (i.e. on a
callout server). In this case, it would be nice to have a something
like "if my local system load is below a certain threshold, I call the
local service, otherwise I use a remote callout". How would you
implement this if only the service itself takes care about adapting to
dynamic behavior? And, no, I do NOT like the idea of chaining multiple
services :)

-Markus