I finished my work on the tabs, buttons and windows of the GUI, now I’m thinking about the next project. While there are still about about 6-8 months of work ahead for EF2 I find it important to plan the next steps. This is an important lesson from project management / marketing. People who find your product great want something to look forward to. If you can already present the next product a few months after the first you can ride on the momentum of public interest the release of your first product has generated. Otherwise people will simply forget about you and move on.
I did a lot of work in the Java2EE / Web UI field in the last year at work so I will program the “EF2 premium” version in Java. While the EF2 user interface looks great it lacks many of the advanced features that Java2EE in connection with GWT provides (a dynamic grid with SQL connection, authentication features, RPC client/server communication, browser integration). Thus I have split the project into two parts: An optimized main module in C++ that does the actual calculations and that runs locally on your computer to display the colorful graphical user interface and a more complex configuration interface in your web browser to individually configure the 30 interconnected tables required to run Evolution Forge 2. It gets more exciting every month, stay tuned!