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[koi-dev] Logging all events for later replay...

I'm in a PhD program at Brandeis studying how to build same
time/different place collaborative groupware
[http://group.cs.brandeis.edu/~group/]. 

We have our own component collaboration framework, but I (personally --
I build some of the plugins at http://zclipse.org) would be really
interested in trying out koi with eclipse as a platform for building
some collaborative software engineering plugins.

My problem: the methodology we have developed requires that every action
be logged so we (when putting on our HCI/discourse analyst hats) can
replay and examine how the collaborators... well... collaborate, so we
can refine the interface. 

I know SWT doesn't really allow event logging and replay (which might 
itself be a blocker), but how would koi support this for the network
packets? 

I'd really like (for starters) to be able to build a simple chat plugin
that logs all data (probably at the server) for later replay. This is
probably easy on the face of it, but if there's any core support
planned, I'd love to hear about it, or possibly nudge development in
that direction ;-)

mike

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Michael R Head <burner@cs.brandeis.edu>
Brandeis University CS graduate student