Re: [Bodington-developers] Spring again

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Sean Mehan wrote:
> need to differentiate here between the client which connects to the 
> external server and the page which gives information on which of your 
> pals is online and chattable.

But shouldn't the "page which gives information" be a tool? as you might 
want it to be permission and hierarchy aware?

> The chat server is being made aware of bod groups, so your groups turn 
> into roster groups in chat-space, and you have the ability to create a 
> chat room as you do a forum for the discussion tool.

Ok so from our current discussion I have a glossary of:

Plugin: A way of linking code into an application without having the 
application explicitly depend on the code. Don't you need an interface 
todo this, you get the application to depend on the interface not the 
implementation. But you still end up polluting the application with the 
interface.

Bodington already has plugins in BuildingSession (and subclasses) and 
Facility (and subclass) can be replaced at runtime with different 
implementations.

Tool: A Bodington tool that can be deployed somewhere in the tree of 
resources and is aware of permissions and possibly the hierarchy.

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