Hi Ross, thanks for your fast reply.
> 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. I will put the source code online and publish the link here. > > 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. The current prototype was ported to Wookie 0.10 (the screencast is a little older). It wasn't important for us at that moment as we just wanted to demonstrate the idea. Also we don't utilize OpenAjax-Event Bus of Wookie yet, but use our own quick & dirty implementation. However, it is planned to switch to Wookie's IWC implementation. > > 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? If the Wookie-Event Bus implementation would allow it - than yes, as widgets do nothing else then sending messages to the public event bus. > > 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. Thanks, every feedback and report on experience with the system would be helpful! Best Regards, Olexiy > > On 29 June 2012 12:58, Olexiy Chudnovskyy > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > my name is Olexiy Chudnovskyy, im 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 its > 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
