James,
> A) Try not to be overwhelmed by all the depth of the
> material out there - it
> is easy to feel a sense of 'information overload' with
> all of this
> B) Try to be aware but not intimidated by these
> 'kinda-like' techniques (I
> call these techniques rather than technologies) to make
> sure embedlets is
> the 'base class' of all these things
When I start to feel the pressures of 'information
overload' with respect to Embedlets I remind myself that
any group attempting to develop an Embedlet-like technology
is faced with the same difficulties. This makes me feel
better ;-)
As for the 'base class' idea, I think that it will turn out
to be a key concept and it was one of the ideas that the
Embedlet work we did back on the JStamp list also pointed
to as being important.
> BTW - How is the Elevator Challenge going. It was a very
> tough one to hand
> out first up - thats why I chose it.. It is sometimes
> quite challenging to
> push from idea to implementation and all the issues
> without silver bullets
> that 'spring up' can be quite discouraging. I am keen to
> see your final
> solution.
It is going very well and it has turned out to be an
excellent application for discovering workable solutions
for a tentative Embedlet design.
I have ended up scrapping a significant number of 'good'
ideas over the past 3 weeks that would not work but the
ideas that are left seem to be pretty solid.
I do not know if anyone has noticed but all of the Embedlet
related design documents that I have been developing while
attempting to come up with a solution to the elevator
problem are present in the CVS (so far there have been 15
commits).
All the design documents are in OpenOffice 1.0's XML file
formats so they can be managed by a CVS system very easily.
Ted
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