WebMap started as simple tool to make hypertext navigation more convenient, but there still is a lot to do. At present, only the visualization of the web is supported.
During the WebMap project, it turned out that the dynamic software structure of WebMap has proven its worth and bears an enourmous potential concerning program extension at runtime. A matter of current research is to investigate the possibility of supplying new class definitions and objects at runtime as part of document meta-information, e.g., to support new domain structure types and traversal strategies (as well as more general agents) dynamically at runtime.
Another field of investigation is the development of a code server which will be designed to automatically update the software of executing WebMap programs all over the world.
The third project is to extend the event based object interaction scheme accross process boundaries to interconnect several WWW tools and let them work together. Similar to the way WebMap supports Mosaic, it could support a WYSIWYG HTML editor, and WebMap itself could be supported by web robots like [8] and [10].