RE: [Tm4j-developers] Some news and an idea

[Kal A. <ka...@te...>]

>
> Hello!
>
> [Kal]
> | That doesn't sound too onerous to me...email / snail mail
> communication is
> | fine - I just couldn't commit to travelling to Austria for a
> meeting (then
> | again, that might not be such a bad thing... ;-)
> |
> | I would be really happy to see this go ahead if you can make it happen
> | Florian! I'll do whatever I can to help out with your administration.
>
> I take that as a go! :-) I'll go ahead and see what I can do.
>
> [Norbert]
> | [...] at the moment I'm trying to build a editing gui to create/manage
> | topic maps. [...]
>
> Kal, Gerd, what do you guys think of that? Taking into account
> that I don't
> really consider myself a GUI guru, wouldn't this be a nice way of sharing
> the workload for a TM4J-based TM editing application, me doing the DOM
> framework and Norbert doing the front end?
>

That sounds good to me - I was going to suggest that seeing as there seem to
be a number of people interested in developing this application that it
would be a good thing to:

a) Split the work up
b) Develop the editor as a "framework" into which new GUI tools or
processing tools can be easily slotted.

In looking at (b) I think it would be very worthwhile spending some time
working out an MVC-style architecture for the application. The model part
can probably be mostly provided by the existing TopicMap/TopicMapProvider
interfaces, however it may need some extension to support all of the
features required of the editing application. The View and Controller parts
could draw on some of the "events" in the current version of TMNav, though
I'm not entirely happy with the structure of that application.

Norbert, would it be possible for you to describe the architecture of your
application a little. Existing applications such as yours and the TMNav
application are good starting points for working out a feasible architecture
for this kind of thing.

And we need a name. Suggestions anyone ? :-)

Cheers,

Kal