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- <chapter id="future"><title>Future Directions</title>
-
- <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
- able to do something real with it. Features should include greater
- flexibility, greater support for access/resource control, and easy
- support for Explain (possibly with Zebra as an extra database engine).
- </para>
-
- <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.
- It shouldn't be that hard. Another thing that would be interesting is
- LDAP. Maybe a generic framework for doing IR using both LDAP and
- Z39.50 transparently.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The SOAP implementation is incomplete. In the future we hope
- to add more features to it. Perhaps make a WSDL/XML Schema compiler.
- The authors of libxml2 are already working on XML Schema / RelaxNG
- compilers so this may not be too hard.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- It would be neat to have a proper module mechanism for the Generic
- Frontend Server so that backend would be dynamically
- loaded (as shared objects / DLLs).
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Other than that, &yaz; generally moves in the directions which appear to
- make the most people happy (including ourselves, as prime users of the
- software). If there's something you'd like to see in here, then drop
- us a note and let's see what we can come up with.
- </para>
-
- </chapter>
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