Tumia the first Object-Oriented Internet Directory

[Paka Small]

Hi,

To my knowledge Tumia (http://www.tumia.org) is the first internet
directory structured according to the object-oriented paradigm.
Currently Tumia is in its baby years. To illustrate the object-
oriented concept consider below "Navigate from Earth Global Warming
2000 AD to Mitigating Solar Energy and Back" which is a specific
scenario of the use case "Navigate to Related Tumia Instances".

Scenario Navigate from Earth Global Warming 2000 AD to Mitigating
Solar Energy and Back

Precondition:
The user has opened http://www.tumia.org .

Scenario:
1. The user selects the Tumia Class Climate Change.
2. The system displays http://www.tumia.org/en/directory/en/earth_global_warming_2000_ad_p1.html
3. The user selects the Related Instance Solar Energy.
4. The system displays http://www.tumia.org/en/directory/en/solar_energy_p1.html
5. The user selects the Related Instance Earth Global Warming 2000 AD.
6. The system displays http://www.tumia.org/en/directory/en/earth_global_warming_2000_ad_p1.html

I hope as software developers and OO and use case believers you'll
find this example to be a promising use of object-orientation and of
use cases in the functional analysis discipline of software
development.

I also hope it shows how important OO is not only in software design
but in first instance in functional analysis and thus determining the
domain classes of your software design and thus realising low
representational gap.

Kind Regards,

Paka Small