BRIDGE Design Notes

• Whiteboard-based annotation support (alternate tool configuration for whiteboard and image rendering for html data)
• User list enhancements (UI extensions to components described in "BRIDGE-based conferencing support" and "Synchronous awareness support")
• Enhanced chat support
• Weblog tools
• Site and format configuration (e.g., StandardTemplate object)
• Presentation (slide) format
• Threaded discussion
• Calendar tools
• Scriptable Objects
• Data Table enhancements (for scalability and formula support)
• Weather stuff:
  • Weather tools
  • Weather collection and prediction modules
• Applet component
• Workspace support
  • Alternative: Shared Desktop support. 2D arrangement of icons for objects, along with additional awareness information, but no internal frames
  • Workspace and object navigation (Alternate selector components: maps, trees, etc...)
• Map-related work
  • Map editing tools (find old notes on this, e.g., toolbar design)
  • Map Navigation
  • Notes on Map Navigation Design of BRIDGE System
    • How to Add Navigation to Preexist Maps
    • What should we consider in initializing two maps for navigation
  • Map Data Handling Notes

• MOO and Workspace enhancements
  • MOO Configuration Tools
  • Guided Editing
  • MOO-Workspace integration
• Quiz support
  • HTML FORM support
• Reflector support (for streaming data)
• Data management tools:
  • Web-based data entry
  • Simple database support (see also HTML FORM support)
  • Relational database support
• Web Tools (small-ish tools designed to support web content creation):
  • TOC and Button generator
  • Banner generator
  • Auto TOC-generation
    • Pop-up menu for navigation (useful for presentations)
    • Handout generator for presentations
  • Tracking recent visitors
  • Simple survey question
  • Related Objects List, for maintaining embeddable sets of related objects
  • Embedded Selection Support, for per-page selection of embedded objects (specifically for use in shared components like sidebars and headers)
  • Web-based object creation (for constructing arbitrary objects and uploading files from the web editor)

• BRIDGE services:
  • Version tracking:
    • Versioning interface (see also Automatic versioning)
    • BRIDGE object versioning and tracking
    • Automatic versioning
    • Versioning of groups of objects
• Addressible version history support
  • Referential integrity - renaming objects without breaking links
  • Synchronous awareness support -- mechanisms for securely/efficiently tracking who is looking at what
    • BRIDGE-based conferencing support
  • JNLP session and duplicate client issues
  • Transient (secondary) account management
  • Packages
  • Token management
• Security-related notes:
  • Security and Permissions management
  • Local accounts management
  • Integration with VT directory services
  • Permissions controls
• BRIDGE web integration:
  • Browser cache support
  • Web session (login-logout) notes
  • Embedded form support
  • XSLT Integration
  • CSS Support
• BRIDGE configuration:
  • ComponentView and WebView config
• Generic UI work - components that may be used with or otherwise support multiple/arbitrary end-user tools:
  • Multicolumn view of BRIDGE file systems
  • Object Set UIs
  • Swing utilities for bridge GUIs
    • Drag and Drop support
  • Interactive client modes
  • Link editing UI
  • Property Editor Text Field
• CORK
  • Vector clock management for (e.g.) synchronous text documents
  • Replicated Object cloning support
  • Berkeley DB (Sleepycat) Storage
  • Server federation
  • CORK database garbage collection
  • Releasing client-side replicas
  • Next-generation CORK server
• TO-DO list for release
• API cleanup tasks

• Management of property chains
• Object directory presentation (the mechanisms with which users see, organize, and manipulate individual data objects)
• Content and site template support (mechanisms for creating new content based on sets of objects set aside as templates)
• Permissions controls (mechanisms for specifying who can do what)
• Multiple hostname support
• Lazy jar loading
• Permission, location, and awareness label -- the label at the bottom of each object in the full editor
• Slow network proxy