Future Goals
Last Modified: 99/09/05
This list contains some future goals for the Notio platform ranging from the
trivial to the grandiose. Any suggestions for new goals, priorities for
existing goals, or offers of help with implementing goals are appreciated.
The goals are listed in no particular order. It is possible that a
prioritizing system will be added later. More specific changes and goals may
be found in the automatically generated documentation.
- Migrate to Java 2 platform (JDK 1.2).
- Use type definitions to place new types within hierarchy.
- Add optional type checking for relation arguments.
- Add "iterate" and "split" operations.
- Add subgraph selection/copying operations.
- Add alternate representations (e.g. adjacency matrix).
- Rework matching schemes and engine for improved clarity and increased functionality.
- Implement type expansions.
- Change type hierarchy implementation to use some high-performance representation.
- Rework LF parser/generator.
- Rework the extensions mechanism.
- Develop event model for changes to graphs.
- Develop pluggable literal handler for CGIF parser/generator.
- Develop pluggable Actor framework.
- Develop CG collections framework.
- Develop KIF parser/generator.
- Allow CVS download of latest development sources.