Coming features

Serialization

Serialization support will be generalized.

For later

Multithreading

Synchronized decorators are planned for much later.

TemporalMap

Like java.util.Map, but with the time dimension added on top.

Many-to-many mediators

Today we instantiate for example a TemporalSet for each Employee and then insert the Skills.
If we want a reverse navigability (for example from Skill to Employees) we need to maintain another set of TreeTemporalSet.
With the "many-to-many mediators" it should be possible to instantiate one global mediator for all Employees and Skills, allowing double navigation.

These new mediators could be similar to the [GoF94] mediator, with additionally the temporal dimension.

Temporal constraints

Once the many-to-many mediators are defined, it is possible to define temporal constraints. That means for example enforcing that an employee can have a salary only when he or she is employed by a company.

[GoF94] Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides, Design Patterns, Addison Wesley 1994.