"We believe they can be compatible services," said Kevin Klose, the president of NPR.
Traditionally, facilities host only one service, whereas the challenge and opportunity lies in combining various, compatible services and offering them together under one roof.
This allows for the type safe discovery and use of compatible services, even where the specific components involved were unknown to the developer at build-time.
Compatible services are discoverable using the getIfaces introspection commands, which will return references to any interface that is a subtype of the GUID specified.
This allows us to find possible combinations of strongly compatible services that should be offered together in Multi-Service Facilities and, at the same time, avoid an unwanted combination of services that are incompatible.
For example, when you click on video, you can either browse directly videos on compatible services or paste a URL from YouTube, Vimeo, Vine and many more services.
The in-network taxonomy is used at runtime to: (i) automatically check type safety on bindings, (ii) to discover compatible services and (iii) to reduce the overhead of configuration.
The biggest change on this from previous generations on this front is the addition of HDR video, which promises improved light and dark balances for compatible services, like Amazon Prime.
Depending on the specific requirements of the business model they serve and the application domain for which services were deployed, a number of mismatches (i.e. sequence and cardinality of messages exchanges, structure and format of messages and content semantics), can occur which prevent interoperation among a priori compatible services.
They are organized by type: BioC implementations, downloadable BioC tools, online BioC compatible services and available corpora in the BioC format.
