From palsberg@cs.purdue.edu Fri Jun  5 12:27:55 1998
From: Jens Palsberg <palsberg@cs.purdue.edu>
To: lieber@ccs.neu.edu

Dear Karl,

> What kind of enhancements have you planned for JTB?
> What about making every visitor a Java bean and also to
> have the traversals as Java beans informing the visitors
> about traversal status. The traversal Java beans should
> be generated from traversal specifications.
 
Until now we have concentrated on making JTB industrial strength, but
without traversal specifications.  One possible next step is to combine
JTB with traversal specifications together with the ideas of Jack Callahan,
Univ W Virginia, who has written a frontend for JTB which generates visitors
from a nice, compact style of specifications.  Another possibility is to 
combine JTB with ideas from Microsoft.  Kevin Tao is right now spending three
months at Microsoft.

Best regards,
--Jens