Java object-sharing in Habanero
Communications of the ACM
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Collaboration transparency in the DISCIPLE framework
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Resource sharing for replicated synchronous groupware
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects
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CSCW '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Leveraging JAVA Applets: Toward Collaboration Transparency in JAVA
IEEE Internet Computing
ECOOP '01 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
Middleware '01 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg
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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Towards an Aspect-Oriented Framework in the Design of Collaborative Virtual Environments
FTDCS '01 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Dermi: A New Distributed Hash Table-Based Middleware Framework
IEEE Internet Computing
Weaving a social fabric into existing software
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Reliable Distributed Systems: Technologies, Web Services, and Applications
Reliable Distributed Systems: Technologies, Web Services, and Applications
Transparent adaptation of single-user applications for multi-user real-time collaboration
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0
Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0
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IEEE Internet Computing
Scribe: a large-scale and decentralized application-level multicast infrastructure
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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The conversion of legacy single-user applications into collaborative multi-user tools is a recurrent topic in groupware scenarios. Many recent literature works have tried to achieve transparent collaboration, which consists of enabling collaborative features without modifying the original application source code. In this paper, we define the available whitebox and blackbox models of transparent collaboration. Each of them differs on which degree the developer must have of the target application inner knowledge, in order to convert it into a multi-user tool. Moreover, we propose and define a novel blackbox model and its implementation (TaKo). Our proposal achieves complete transparency by intercepting user interface libraries and input events. This is the first blackbox solution constructed on top of interception technologies (Aspect Oriented Programming) and, unlike previous approaches, it provides support to both AWT and Swing applications. Our solution solves five important problems: simultaneous work, management of replicated resources (random number generators), collaborative services binding, detailed group awareness information, late joining, and unanticipated sharing support. We are also researching a prospective work on wide-area collaboration scenarios by using a peer-to-peer event substrate. Finally, this work provides validation of TaKo with several Swing-based and AWT-based tools, demonstrating that it is generic and imposes very low overhead.