What have we come up with?
Scientific IDL spec.
- provides language interoperability only - not part of the component arch. per se.
- introspection.
Metaphor from visual programming (e.g. AVS)
- instead of data-flow ports are linked with interfaces
- Provides/Uses design pattern
- 0.5 CCA specification:
http://z.ca.sandia.gov/~cca-forum/port-spec