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Hi Nathan, as you know I really like this carousel component.

Regarding the JSON library. You write you would want to use SNAPPS. Why SNAPPS and not the one on openntf.org? What are the advantages? Why haven't you used it directly? Is native LotusScript support for JSON in 8.5 critical or do you think people can use the external libraries?

You have a whole bunch of properties but I only see tellNotesSelectedUNID and tellCarouselSelectedJSON being used. What are the other ones for?

Both components are basically kept in synch as to what they display. I saw that if you select another view entry the JSON property is published, then the UNID comes back and then the JSON property is published again. I assume that the logic you implemented is in the carousel: if you get JSON for entry that is already displayed don't do anything and don't publish UNID again right? Is that how you avoid endless loops?

I couldn't find the Java code. Will you also make it available?
I saw you removed certain design notes from the updatesite.ntf, e.g. forms for features and plugins. Which ones did you remove? By trial and error?

I understand the use case that you want to pass all configuration to the carousel everytime the view entry selection changes. You could also store the configuration in the comp app configuration/ca xml. In CAE you can set these (static) advanced component properties and then access them via Java API in your Eclipse component: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/CompApps?entry=how_to_pass_context_to

Thanks
Niklas