program using the GenTech model

[Jesper Zedlitz]

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Some people have already tried to write a genalogical program using the
GenTech model http://geneapro.sf.net/ But the project seems to got stuck
in a very early phase nearly two years ago.

I always played with the thought to write such a program. On other technical
genealogical mailinglists there are several other persons who have similar
plans.

Ok, it is a challenge -- probably nothing for one or two persons. But maybe
we can find a group of motivated people and start developing a program that
can handle more than "person, family, note".

Right know I do not have a precise plan how to start the project. One
possibility is a top->bottom approach taking a look at several real-world
documents and see how they can be managed with the new program. Or we could
start bottom->top and design classes based on the data model and start
working with those.

My preferred programming language is Java. Geneapro used Eclipse's RCP to
build an user interface. But I am not sure if maybe a webbased solution
would be better. It would be the best to structure the project so well that
it is easy to have several different "view" layers.

To get acceptance from the users the program must hide the complexity of
Gentech in most cases. It should only be visable in 'expert mode'. So we
need a mapping between the simple 'traditional' model ("My grandmother's
name was ... and she was born on ...") and Gentech's evidence/assertion
model.

Jesper

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[Gjest]

CybersaurusREXX checking in.

I have not yet linked to the GenTech model, but will do it immediately
after sending this.

My preferred language is Mainframe IBM REXX on a VM platform. However,
a better choice for this type of project would probably be NETREXX or
PERL, but I have yet to take the time to learn Perl or Java.