Roadmap

We just released R2.0 and are now working on some improvements that did not make it into this release for a R2.1 and the design of the things, that will make up R3.0 .

future plans

past releases

Wishlist

Here we have a loose list of things the developers and people wish to have: (only unfulfilled wishes showing) some of them are pretty easy to do... would YOU...pleeeesssse ;)
 full-screen-support for the SSH-client
 access the contexts via NFS for other programs(mostly shell-scripts) ;) - there is a Java NFS-server
 web-browser to support cookies, js, applets, a working history, bookmarks (netscape-import,...)
 a transmit to PDA action (for pocket-viewer, Ipaq and Palm)
 contexts can get ServiceIDs/RMI-URLs/SOAP-URLs/... of other services with (attribute-to-lookup-the-value-of,postfix-of-new-attribute-name,[T/F]delete-original-attr-if-successfull)
 a general meta-context combining the results of a lookup in all configured contexts to use (integrate a new translator into all contexts by adding it to a single meta-context)
 try writing a service providing a weiredX (www.jcraft.com/weiredx/index.html) - X-server
 let the starter-panel use jRexec to allow executing the services on a remote-server
 a component derived from JTextField having a context-menu allowing copy,paste,paste-editor-buffer,...
 an action for "text/any" for "lookup definition", ... in the directory-browser
 have the contexts integrate into other contexts (translate, ... attribute-values)
 easier keyboard-only navigation, maybe a task-switching key
 auto.completation in the application-starter-panel (at least for macros)
 icons in the application-starter-panel and maybe in the task-list
 a temporary full-screen-mode or even virtual-screen-mode to have more space for an application
 experiment with activation to save memory in services as well as representations (unused representations are "swapped" to disk)
 make bookindex double as a real good spell-checker
 let bookindex give more meta-information about the book
 make bookindex automatically parse Project-Gutenberg -indice to get the meta-information and index many books at once
 a dockin to pop-up a text-screen with the key-layout of the twiddler to learn to use it
 make the mail-client use the mime-actions and show atachments via activation
 remote-desktop-sharing of single applications
 an admin-panel for remote-displays
 a small application acting as a client for desktop-sharing that does not require jAugment-base nor JINI
 the 3D-UI should support icons aligning to the screen-borders for windows
 the 3D-UI should support making windows flat projection-pane-parallel geometries
 the battery-service should show when no battery is there
 the telephone-service should be able to use gatekeepers
 text-representation for the telephone-service
 support for exclusive ressources in the JavaSpeechService
 a proxy for objects found in the directory-service (there is a JNDI-Corba -provider)
 a JTAPI-provider for openh323 and a JTAPI-telephone
 a JINI2Corba/Smil/...-gateway                  (CORBA-gw still missing, SOAP-gw is in alpha)
 a calendar-tool                                
 contact-management                             (maybe as a UI for the directory-service)
 a vcard-reader for the directory-service       (should be simple)
 reading pgp-keys from a key-server             (LDAP through the directory-service, no big deal)
 a working text-ui-representation for the SSH-client
 a ssh-service (same interface) using open-ssh
 text-editor-representation, that is jEdit(edit-bus)-compactible or maybe a jEdit-pluginn to read/write jAugment-buffers
 a hash-table-reader for the config-file-parser (really simple)
 a route-finder/map-service                     (should prove usable)
 a position-service(gps-coord)                  (getting the position from e.g. GPS-card and binding it in the directory-service)
 a location-server (city,street,house,room)     (2 implementations possible: using a position-service and the MAC-address of the current 802.11DS/b-access-point)
 an IRC-client                                  (good idea)
 a simple FTP-program                           (maybe, it's simple but is it sensible?)
 a napster/...-client                           (could be integrated into directory-service and media-player)
 -"- -contexts connecting the the clients allowing searches via the directory-service
 integrate the directory-service into the media-player (for e.g. playlists) (simple)
 allow for playlists to be exchanged between text-editor and media-player (simple)
 put the JNDI-file-system-provider into the base-package
 a simple lyx-style editor to take notes with formulars (could be difficult, but lyx itself has multiple UIs, they could provide a good starting-point)
 generalize the mail-client to integrate SMS, voice-messages
 give the mail-client a better behavior regarding the directory-service, maybe an auto-completation
 a world-watch                                 (simple)
 a SQL-client allowing for simple db-administration on the road (simple, but collecting and testing the jdbc-drivers could be work)
 a translation-service
 a character-recognizer-service
 image/video recording and transmission (JMF can do the trick but interoperation could be difficult)
 a jabber-client
 a toshset/toshutils-dockin/application 
 write a 3DUI-input-device using video-orbits and a camera (for mapping real-world <-> virtual world and overlays to real world)