Volume 2 : Number 2 : Paper 4
December 1999 Special Issue of Best Papers presented at CLEI'98. Quito, Ecuador
Title:
TOP: A Platform for the Development of Web Interfaces and Collaborative Applications

Authors and Affiliations:
David A. Fuller,
Roberto C. Portugal, Dept. of Computer Science Universidad Cat
Luis A. Guerrero, Dept. of Computer Science Universidad de Chile Santiago, Chile

Abstract:
Collaborative applications provide a group of users with the facility to communicate and share data in a coordinate way. This paper shows an object-based platform for the development of Web collaborative applications. A communication outline to exchange messages between a Java server and Web applications is shown. This outline provides a high flexibility for the construction of Web interfaces and collaborative applications on Internet. Examples of Web collaborative applications developed using the object-oriented platform are also shown. This paper discusses the implementation of three types of network support based on distributed virtual environment communication models using World2World toolkit, CORBA platform, and its CORBA Event Service as well. These supports encompass an integrated communication environment on a network that is suitable for distributed virtual reality applications. Finally, performance analyses from such supports are presented.


Received March 1999, Revised March 2000
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