Adaptive and Transparent Data Distribution Support for Synchronous Groupware

  • Authors:
  • Stephan Lukosch

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CRIWG '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Groupware: Design, Implementation and Use
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The data of a groupware application must be shared to support interactions between collaborating users. There have been a lot of discussions about the best distribution scheme for the data of a groupware application. Many existing groupware platforms only support one distribution scheme, e.g. a replicated or a central scheme. The selected scheme applies to the entire application. In our opinion, none of these architectures fits well for every groupware application. In this paper we describe a development platform that allows a developer to determine the distribution scheme for each shared data object. With the help of an object-orientedprogramming principle it also achieves a maximum of transparency for the application developer.