DeepaMehta

To Do

Features

  • Import/Export
  • Internationalization
  • Private sphere
  • Version Control System
        Views, Topics, Associations, Documents
  • Extended HTML generator resp. migrating to "Jakarta Struts"
  • More flexible access permission system
  • Writing to corporate datasources
  • Synchronization with corporate datasources
  • Synchronisation between corporate memories/ devices
  • Accessing existing user profiles
  • Backup / Long term archiving

  • Deployment

  • Scalability (load balancing)
  • Integration with existing application servers for Java (EJB)
  • Integration with existing webservices (SOAP)
  • Don't rely on extra TCP port (SOAP based client)

  • User Interface

  • Selecting multiple topics/associations (manipulate multiple)
  • History (Undo / Redo)
  • Universal Inbox

  • Quality Assurance

  • Usability
        Installer
  • Robustness
  • Security
  • Performance
        Full indexed relational storage layer
  • OS compatibility
        UNIX, Mac OS, ...
  • Browser compatibility
        Internet Explorer, Netscape, ...



  • Features (misc)

  • Container functionality is incomplete
  • Related-topic filter of container not yet complete
  • Workflow functionality is incomplete (publishpermission)
  • Doublette Check
  • Workspace administration
  • Topic derivation hierarchy must be considered in all situaltions
       e.g. also Users must be found in a Person container (User is a subtype of person)
  • Active topics must be able to react on type changes of associations the topic
       is involved in, resp. must be able to prohibit the type change at all
  • Properties must be identified by ID instead by name (?)
  • Topics must be queried by property ranges (storage layer)
  • Daemon topics, reminder topic
  • Delayed notification
  • Webcrawler
    • handling of load balanced sites
    • handling of CGI calls not complete
      (the result content type must be considered, for the moment HTML is presumed)
  • Topic appearance controled by active topics
  • More complex topic labeling (e.g. showing properties)
  • Multi service authorization
  • More flexible software compatibility check

  • User Interface (misc)

  • User support for handling topicmaps (modification dates, change history)
  • User support for handling icons
  • Adopt MIME-Type settings from browser configuration
  • Restoring last user session is incomplete
    • the view order is not restored
    • the view tranlations (use-mode and build-mode) are not restored
    • the view selection is not restored
    • the topic selections are not restored
    • the position of the vertical split-slider is not restored
  • More powerful Navigation
    • Navigate to a particular topic / revealing all topics
    • Consider association role types
    • "Show previous" command to reveal a recently used topic
  • Creating topicmap branches ("publish as new")
  • Prevent submenus from apearing partly outside screen area
  • Zooming views
  • Two topics can be associated with a variety of associations
       -- this is not properly visualized
  • Printing
  • Keyboard support (?)





  • 27.11.2002, Jörg Richter jri@freenet.de