X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?p=yaz-moved-to-github.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Ffuture.xml;h=875741e96f10228ea7e488138e5dc931afe802df;hp=c40a3c1fd01f4bfe03a50033c606c0ea2721a719;hb=053367cbe356fb3ce0def34b065dae589d700daf;hpb=0f72f09a46621eb0aa9960b990dd35c221333e4d diff --git a/doc/future.xml b/doc/future.xml index c40a3c1..875741e 100644 --- a/doc/future.xml +++ b/doc/future.xml @@ -1,31 +1,54 @@ - -Future Directions + Future Directions - -We have a new and better version of the frontend server on the drawing -board. Resources and external commitments will govern when we'll be -able to do something real with it. Fetures should include greater -flexibility, greter support for access/resource control, and easy -support for Explain (possibly with Zebra as an extra database engine). - + + 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). + - -We now support all PDUs of Z39.50-1995. If there is one of the -supporting structures that you need but can't find in the prt*.h -files, send us a note; it may be on its way. - + + &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. + - -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. - + + 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. + - -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. - - \ No newline at end of file + + 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). + + + + 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. + + + + +