[Design] Re: [Scooby] Zimlets

[Bobby Rullo]

Very well done.

I would definitely  like to see a similar plug-in architecture for  
Scooby - perhaps based on Chandler's existing Parcel system.

For example, when sharing a Chandler collection to Cosmo, items that  
are created from Chandler Parcels  will be shared (as they are now I  
believe) but Chandler would then check to see if the parcel.xml has a  
scooby relevant component like maybe:

     <classes key="javascript" value="morgencom.example.Photo.Photo"/>

     or even

     <classes key="java" value="morgencom.example.Photo.Photo"/>

in which case the Parcel itself would be shared, and be enabled when  
the user logs into Scooby. The javascript component would be for code  
that executes on the client side whereas the java code would exist on  
the server side (although the possibility of a user installing code  
that runs on the server is obviously a huge security risk unless  
sandboxed correctly which I am not sure is pratical - perhaps code  
that requires server side functionality could only be installed by an  
Admin)

The key distinction here is that Zimlets must be installed by the  
server administrator (it seems), whereas Scooblets or Scooby Enabled  
Parcels or whatever can be installed by users.

If Chandler's Parcel system ever takes off and people are installing  
all sorts of Parcels, I would imagine that it would be desirable for  
them to see their parcel items online as well as in Chandler.

Right now this is all perhaps pretty far in the future for Scooby but  
something I'd like for us to at least start thinking and talking about.

bobby

On Mar 7, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Mitchell Kapor wrote:

> At the opening of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference last  
> night, Zimbra showed Zimlets, programmable mash-ups that interact  
> with both the Zimbra web client and the Zimbra collaboration  
> server.  Seemed to get a fair amount of buzz even though the demo  
> itself, involving hooking up Asterisk to Zimbra wasn't dramatic.
>
> http://www.zimbra.com/products/zimlets.html
>
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