What is the scope (applicability) of Rolonic Theory?

I find that rolonics does not seem to be very helpful in general programming, where the focus is largely on behavior. In contrast, Norm uses rolonics in just about everything--organizing keys, his file systems, etc. I think the key here is first class user objects.

When working on the AgileWiki, I find rolonics immensly helpful. It provides me with a powerful model for organizing topics into complex structures, and accessing them. The benifit that rolonics brings then is to things that are named. It is a theory of knowledge and so its innovative areas are in how the user wants to organize and access things and less about the things themselves except when those things are themselves organized structures which have user-named parts.

So rolonics does not play well in the OO space, and only begins to apply at the component level. But for Wiki pages, EJBeans, Portlets, etc., it has tremendous benifit.

Bill