WebScripter Demos

We internally use WebScripter for a variety of things.

  1. The listing of people in our division. The cool thing about this is that every individual maintains his interests and home page and so on -- so if you want to change how you are listed you just edit a plain-text DAML file on your Web server without having to coordinate or communicate with anyone. (Our adminsitrative staff loves it because they used to be responsible for collating everyone's information and keeping it up to date.)
  2. The CAMERA project uses it for its user interface designs (dynamically computed content - will take 20 seconds or so to load). The cool thing about that is that anyone in our group can add comments and implementation issues to the designs in a distributed way. (And soon, we'll have a servlet for uploading DAML instances to our server by filling out a plain HTML form -- then non-technical users anywhere can contribute DAML content as well.)
  3. We maintain WebScripterized open and closed to-do items for a number of projects, such as Meta-Ja: open, closed. They then are also automatically picked up and inserted as appendix D and E in the Meta-Ja manual (PDF format). (This is the only project of which we make our to-do lists public.)
  4. BBN's daml.org tools page has a link to a WebScripter-based desiderata list for their DAML validator. This list shows nicely how you can comment on and rate other people's to-do items as well.