RE: [higgins-dev] Why isn't ITokenCard an extension of ICard?

["Paul Trevithick" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike wrote:
> 
> higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/12/2007 02:56:54 PM:
> 
> > Mike wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I cannot think of ITokenCards that aren't also ICards.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > > I prefer to build my code to work off interfaces instead of
> > > implementations.
> > > Apparantly:
> > >         package org.eclipse.higgins.icard.provider.cardspace.impl;
> > >         public abstract class InfoCard implements ICard, ITokenCard
> > > has what I need but its in a "impl" package and its a class, not an
> > > interface.
> >
> > I agree that ITokenCard should be an interface that extends ICard.
> That's
> > what I intended.
> 
> Actually after looking at the code I suspect there should be:
> 
> interface ICard ...
> interface ITokenCard extends ICard ...
> interface IInformationCard extends ITokenCard ...

MSFT uses the term Information Card (and earlier "Info Card") to mean a
CardSpace-interoperable card. I have avoided the word InformationCard or
InfoCard as some of our cards are not CardSpace-interoperable.