for fall 2002:
Make fwk ports w/dummies into components that go with fwk and have no real binding.
Get 'service factory' api draft in place in classic space.
Get services for gui invocation going.

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old list
 In my mind we have several fuzzy categories like
 Services, components, frameworks, guis, wire protocols, and
 deployment.
 Please add/annotate/update/sign-up.

 - Interrupt/semaphore service.  i.e (Stop Thread + listener) (Ben/Rob).
 - About button service. (Student)
 - Help service. (Student)
 - Dialog service. (conditional, hierarchical). (Student/Ben)
 - Container service (esi example). (Rob?)
 - Container service GUI rendering. (Student)
 - gui human factors design/commercial builders investigation/SCIRUN theft? (Steve?)
 - port property hint string usage standard proposals (Ben/Student).
 - component property hint string usage standard (Ben/Student).
 - framework properties string usage standard (Ben/Student).
 - data blob component (Ben/Rob/Lori/Craig).
 - build-script reader/editor/replayer (parameterizable) GUI. (Student/Ben)
 - parameter-substitution support in Cmd parser. (Ben)
 - handle bug reports.


Done list:

5/17/2000
 - CPLANT port 
 - Log Output service 
 - May 17 demo for real 

5/18/2000
 - ParameterPort service w/new events.
 - Clean out the old "Direct" port classes.

6/7/2000
 - DynamicLoad/repository/remote build&link service. (Ben)
 - Configure script. (Ben)

6/28/2000
 - Doc++-ify all the cxx headers (mostly). (Ben)
 - Javadoc improve all the java classes (Ben)
 - Safe exit protocol(stop locking linux up)/service Apparently done. (colin).
 - Symbol table service; larger framework-factory issue. (Ben)
 - Buffered reader in c++. (Rob)

9/2000
 - namespaces in c++. (Ben)
 - 0.5 spec compliance. (Ben/Rob)

10/2000
 - Purify/refcount (cdelete,cfree,creference,cdecrement, interface/port to describe these) (Ben/Student)
 - namespaces in c++. (Rob, Ben. summer-student)
 - 0.5 spec compliance. (Rob)