[Tm4j-developers] About to join the development effort

[Florian G. H. <f.g...@gm...>]

Hello!

Since this is my first appearance on this list, please allow me to introduce
myself.

My name is Florian; I'm currently a student at Fachhochschul-Studiengang
Informationsberufe (a college of applied science in information technology
and knowledge management) in Eisenstadt, Austria. My technical background is
mainly one of a Java aficionado and relational database designer (Oracle,
SQL Server). I came across Topic Maps and XTM in late January of this year;
what intrigues me most about the whole concept is its flexibility and
elegance in terms of describing knowledge concepts and interconnections
between them -- so much nicer than what we find in most RDBMS-based
information systems. :-)

I have exchanged a few ideas about a DOM implementation of the TM4J engine
with Kal in the past few days; I guess he's going to post a digest of our
conversation to this list soon. In the meantime, you perhaps would like to
take a look at what's already there; for the time being, it's on my personal
web site at http://www.fgh.bkf.at/personal/stuff/tm4j/. Beware, though, all
of this is really pre-pre-pre-alpha. :-)

Enough said for now. I suppose Kal will say the rest.

Later,
-- Florian