An application for Sun Microsystems

I've been busy the last few days. First, I've made it a lot easier to install applications. Each application now has its own .commands, .rolons and .fields file in the working directory. At startup they are all read in and processed. So installing an appliction is just a matter of copying the jar file into the lib directory and copying these additional files into the server's working directory. And then restarting the server. Now I just need to update all the documentation.

An I'll note that the amount of documentation at agilewiki.org (its in the wiki itself now) is growing. I usually spend one or more hours every morning writing documentation.

But what's kept me busy is a request for an application at the office. We want to put up a document, allow comments on various sections, and then analyze those comments. So I've added a number of features...

--You can now specify that when a guest visits a particular topic, a request to login is displayed rather than the topic's document.

--Brace notation has been extended to support the inclusion of the document content of other topics. For example, you can have one document which holds a table, and in the cells you can include other documents. Recursively.

--You can now determine the URL of a topic simply by clicking on the pathname. The browser then displays the URL, which you can then add to external documents.

So it looks like a big release is coming up. Not anything I had planned, but still good stuff that makes AW a more useful tool.

Bill