Design notes.

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 Whirled Design -*- mode: outline -*-
 
-* Notes
-Scene manager registers a timer when it becomes empty and flushes itself
-from memory after timeout period.
-
-Client should avoid unsubscribing from scene objects straight away so that
-it can avoid resubscribing if they bounce back and forth between scenes.
-
-We'll want the scenes to adhere to some sort of hierarchy so that we can
-associate properties files with classes of scenes which will be used to
-configure the scene managers when they are initialized.
-
-Add code to deal with receiving updated scenes from the server.
-
-Add code to flush scenes from the client scene manager cache.
-
 * Overview
 Whirled builds on top of the Cocktail platform and provides a framework
 for building a virtual world made up of a node network of individual
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 be provided periodically to bring all clients into sync with the runtime
 scene database, from which they can then continue to mirror updates as
 needed.
+
+* Notes
+Scene provider needs to do the right thing when a client requests an out
+of date scene. Presently it doesn't handle sending the client the updated
+scene data.
+
+Scene manager registers a timer when it becomes empty and flushes itself
+from memory after timeout period.
+
+Client should avoid unsubscribing from scene objects straight away so that
+it can avoid resubscribing if they bounce back and forth between scenes.
+
+We'll want the scenes to adhere to some sort of hierarchy so that we can
+associate properties files with classes of scenes which will be used to
+configure the scene managers when they are initialized.
+
+Add code to flush scenes from the client scene manager cache.
+