On Wed, 24 May 2000, marc fleury wrote:
> Imagine: 24th century, aboard a probe, headset on, power sysadmin has gogles
> on, is plugged into system, manages jBoss 23.4, interplanetary distribution
> of resources flow system.
>
> He speaks:"
> SA: "open shell". Response: "hi"
> SA: "connect to confMaster". Response: "confMaster online"
> SA: "connect to container Abraham in Mars-Lander", R: "Abraham is online,
> welcome, confMaster".
> SA: "display EJX :) configuration of beans life-support" ...R: "Displaying"
> (gui popup with information)
> SA: "change pool size in bean life-support to 55". R: "Changing bean
> life-support pool size to 55, soft redeploying"
> SA: "Disconnect". R: "Abraham wishes you a good day, confMaster"
24th century, hell. One of my past Java project-lets was a
voice-interactive news reader (I have a long commute) using IBM Speech for
Java & ViaVoice (though I think they have a free speech kit for Linux).
That technology is here today.
So, let's make it a triumvirate: GUI, scripting, voice. Some will
perhaps be ready before others, but it would be nice to have a flexible
architecture from the beginning. If we go with the event-based model,
please allow for events that cause GUI navigation as well as data updates
(so you could give a command like "Open persistence properties" or
whatever).
Aaron
