I was planning on writing a custom data providing WebPart that interacts with some interesting schemas. The initial plan was to use the IWebPartTable interface to expose data to 3rd party components such as charts to reduce the number of WebPart's I'd need to develop.
However after doing some research, I've been unable to find many consumers of IWebPartTable (found Nevron Charts and the built in MossChartWebPart). I'm going to be using SharePoint 2013 ultimately but I'm wondering is there any point at all in using the standard interface, or should I just use my own custom ones?