How about just writing the unit tests for VisualWorksUiSpecReader?
Go through some representative vw ui specs and see if you can
hand build the appropriate widget tree.

Write tests that accept a construct and test to see if they result in
the appropriate tree.

The great thing about writing unit tests, is that they don't have to
succeed... at first.

If you can produce the unit tests, others can fill in the details
of a compliant implementation.

John Sarkela :-}>
ReThink Systems, Inc.

> From: "NIJDAM,MARC \(HP-Cupertino,ex1\)" <marc_nijdam at hp.com>
>[...]
> Boy I'm I close to biting here... I'm note sure I'd be able to commit the
> time needed to keep moving relatively fast. Depends on how fast you want to
> move. Also, my VW knowledge was frozen about five years ago, so I'm
> incredibly rusty.
> 
> Marc
> 
>> [...]
>> *The Challenge*
>> 
>> Perform this task in an XP fashion. Find a programming partner and
>> write unit tests that ensure that for each of the VW UI Spec constructs
>> the result is an appropriate instance of WidgetSpec. Then implement
>> the simplest possible code that passes those tests.
>> 
>> Any takers???
>> 
>> [|] John Sarkela :-}>
>> ReThink Systems, Inc.
>