>>>
>>>SharedDataKey. It's possible that multiple users will have the same
>>>keys.
>> 
>> OK.  I looked over the API docs and what I propose is that we defer the
>> call to wookie to when we render the page.  When we are outputting the
>> list of widgets to the page, there is some natural conversion to the
>> Javascript representation of the widget instance (as a string).  If we
>>had
>> a rendering facility that kept a handle on a map of widget converters by
>> widget type, we could call to it to build the string that we inject into
>> the page's script block as we are iterating over the RegionWidgets in a
>> Region.  This way, we can have a W3C widget serializer that caches the
>> calls to /wookie/widgetinstances for a given user, SharedDataKey, etc
>>and
>> we don't have to re-plumb the object model or service layer to support
>> what is in essence a rendering function.
>> 
>> Usually not a fan of tags, but in this case, it might be worth it...
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>
>Sounds a plausible solution, but I think I'll understand it better in
>code :-)

Ross was going to build the Wookie connectors. I will build the rendering
piece, so long as that does not conflict with what he is doing as part of
the Wookie connectors.  Ross? 

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