HI Olexiy, I saw a presentation on the OMELETTE project in Oxford a while back - looks like a great project. It was also great to see Rave in the video.
I'm a little out of touch with the current state of play with IWC in Wookie and Rave. I know some work has been done in this area though. I'm sure others will be able to speak to that aspect of your question. What I wanted to say is that your approach looks really good. I liked what I saw in the video from a concept point of view. I really like the simplicity of wiring widgets together. It looked potentially very powerful. I'd love to see it applied in a more complex environment. Getting the code here would be a good way of encouraging that. A couple of things I noticed. Most significantly it looked like your demo is built on a pretty old version of Wookie (perhaps 0.8?). It probably wouldn't take much to bring it all up to date, but we need to be aware of this. This solution wouldn't work outside a browser instance would it? That is I couldn't have a map widget on Foo's page respond to the changes on Bar's. Would it work across browser tabs? In general, speaking purely as a potential user rather than a currently active Wookie developer, I would like to see this integrated into Wookie and am happy to help in any way I can. Ross On 29 June 2012 12:58, Olexiy Chudnovskyy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > my name is Olexiy Chudnovskyy, i’m a PhD student of Chemnitz University of > Technology. Together with other universities and industrial partners we > use/contribute to Wookie in course of the European Research Project > OMELETTE. Currently, our research focuses on inter-widget communication > facilities, which were introduced also in Wookie since 0.10 release. > > > > I wanted to share with you an idea of enriching existing stand-alone widgets > with inter-widget communication functionality. The goal is to make already > deployed widgets “talking” to each other without manual intervention into > widget internals. We have published a paper on the approach and built a > first simple prototype to demonstrate how it’s working: > > > > <http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/demo/iwc-extension> > http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/demo/iwc-extension > > > > It would be interesting to find out, what do you think about the idea. Do > you find it useful? Is this way of extending widgets is understandable for > end users? > > > > I would be happy to get some feedback from you! > > > > Best Regards, > > Olexiy > > > > E-Mail: <mailto:[email protected]> > [email protected] > > Phone: +49 371 531 39146 > > Chemnitz University of Technology > > Department of Computer Science > > Distributed and Self-organizing Systems Group > > Straße der Nationen 62 > > D-09107 Chemnitz > > Germany > > > -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
