[Opensim-users] Room management application

[Karl Haas]

Dear OpenSim users,

I'm an Austrian student and I'm writing my master's thesis about 
flexible learning environments in virtual worlds. The practical part of 
the work will be a web-based room configuration and reservation tool. 
The configured rooms (walls, chairs, tables, whiteboards, ...) should be 
generated automatically by the application within an OpenSim region.

I just started with OpenSim and I have read about Application Plugins, 
Region Modules (which i could use to create and manage the objects) and 
the REST features. I have some questions concerning the realisation in 
OpenSim:

    * What's are possible ways to communicate with an external service
      (e.g. the room manager)?
    * How can objects (chairs, tables, whiteboards, ...) be crated by
      scripting?
    * How can the content or the state of an object (e.g. whiteboards)
      be saved externally?
    * How can I save the state of an object immediately after it has
      been changed (e.g. whiteboard content modified)?
    * In order to create a RESTful API, would it be a suitable approach
      to extend the class RestPlugin?
    * Would it be an appropriate approach to write a region module,
      which creates and manages the rooms and the objects within the rooms?

Also links to useful information about the related topics would help me 
a lot.

Thanks for any hint in advance!

Best regards,
Karl Haas




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