Re: [Tm4j-developers] Towards 0.5

[Gerd M. <ge...@sm...>]

> Its been a while since a TM4J release and I feel that we have made some
> major progress that it would be good to get announced and released. I would
> like to draw up a list of things to do prior to an 0.5 release. Here is my
> shortlist:
> 
> 	1) Documentation: Just a basic developer's guide and some user docs for the
> tools
> 	2) Stabilise the TMNav application: It has been really buggy for a while -
> I've tracked down the cause of most of the error messages generated by
> TheBrain SDK and I think that the intermittent crashes are to do with
> deadlocks in AWT event processing which it might be possible to fix by
> splitting the application into separate top-level windows.
> 	3) Complete the Provider/Manager interface

I'd like the improve the ozone implementation, but I will not be able to this
within the next three weeks. Also some docu for the ozone stuff would be good.
 
> I'm going to be travelling and working away for much of this month, but
> hopefully will have some time while on the road to work on (1) and (2) and
> to make any changes necessary for (3). Once I get back I'll have some free
> time to finish off, so I'm tentatively planning on making 0.5 before the end
> of the month.
> 
> However, this means that a few things will probably not make the cut for
> 0.5. Such as:
> 	1) Index of *all* topic map objects by ID
> 	2) Implementing the duplicate suppression rules of XTM
> 	3) Implementing a different Open Source-based visualisation for TMNav
> 
> (1) and (2) I will try and do if there is time. (3) I'm playing with ideas
> for but don't even have a concrete design in mind at this stage, so it is
> almost certain to be left undone.

I've done a web based interface with Cocoon2, but it's very application
specfic. I'm not sure if a HTML based solution would be the right for a 
general TMNav solution. I had also some ideas for a graph based interface
as we have it now, but I'll have to think about it again.

Best Regards,
Gerd

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Gerd Mueller                                    ge...@sm...     
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