Groupware: some issues and experiences
Communications of the ACM
Frameworks = (components + patterns)
Communications of the ACM
A Java Framework for Web-Based Multimedia and Collaborative Applications
IEEE Internet Computing
Leveraging JAVA Applets: Toward Collaboration Transparency in JAVA
IEEE Internet Computing
Distributed Java Applets for Project Management on the Web
IEEE Internet Computing
Using Java Applets and Corba for Multi-User Distributed Applications
IEEE Internet Computing
A Component-Oriented Architecture to Design Multimedia Services on a Distributed Platform
WWCA '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications
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Software composition and frameworks are currently important technologies for multimedia services development, especially on the Web. These technologies can be successfully applied to multimedia collaborative services achieving the derivation of new services with shorter development time. In this paper we present the collaborative aspects of MultiTEL, a compositional framework for developing distributed multi-media applications over the Web, implemented using Java/RMI. Multi-TEL is based on a new compositional model, which separate computation and communication aspects in different entities, components and connectors. MultiTEL also includes a middleware platform that supports local resource management, allowing the plug & play of multimedia device components. Currently, our goal is to extend MultiTEL with collaborative issues allowing the development of cooperative services, like application sharing, blackboard, etc. We will address the main collaborative application features of MultiTEL through a case study.