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<chapter id="future"><title>Future Directions</title>
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<para>
We have a new and better version of the front-end server on the drawing
board. Resources and external commitments will govern when we'll be
flexibility, greater support for access/resource control, and easy
support for Explain (possibly with Zebra as an extra database engine).
</para>
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<para>
&yaz; is a BER toolkit and as such should support all protocols
out there based on that. We'd like to see running ILL applications.
LDAP. Maybe a generic framework for doing IR using both LDAP and
Z39.50 transparently.
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<para>
The SOAP implementation is incomplete. In the future we hope
to add more features to it. Perhaps make a WSDL/XML Schema compiler.
<para>
It would be neat to have a proper module mechanism for the Generic
- Frontend Server so that backend would be dynamically
+ Frontend Server so that backend would be dynamically
loaded (as shared objects / DLLs).
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</para>
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