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<chapter id="future"><title>Future Directions</title>
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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).
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The 'retrieval' module needs to be finalized and documented. We think
it can form a useful resource for people dealing with complex record
structures, but for now, you'll mostly have to chew through the code
yourself to make use of it. Not acceptable.
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&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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Other than that, YAZ generally moves in the directions which appear to
make the most people happy (including ourselves, as prime users of the
us a note and let's see what we can come up with.
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