Feature Request: Plugin API

[careck]

If you could open up the internals of Workplace to external plugin developers that would be a tremendous boost to the development and usability of Collanos workplace.

Don't want to develop better support for Word binary formats? let someone out there hook in Apache POI and develop a plugin for it.

Custom data types and applications? Let someone else come up with ideas and implement them.

Better export? Export a workspace to the web? Or to XML? Or to a Foxpro database (shudder) ?? let someone else do these things.

You, the Collanos team could focus on the infrastructure. At the moment the 'community' is really a one-sided affair, you provide stuff, we consume and comment. Plugins and extension would dramatically shift that towards a more equal footing, we plugin developers could provide much better feedback on the Collanos infrastructure and would be alot more personally involved.

Why stop at plugins/extensions? make it scriptable! let users attach scripts to a workplace which get synchronized to all other users of that space!

Anyway, just a thought...

Cheers,
Carsten.