TANGO - a Collaborative Environment for the World-Wide Web
Lukasz Beca, Gang Cheng, Geoffrey Fox, Tomasz Jurga, Konrad Olszewski, Marek Podgórny, Piotr Sokolowski, Tomasz Stachowiak, Krzysztof Walczak · Syracuse University Libraries (Syracuse University) · 1997
Geographical and logical growth of the World-Wide Web is accompanied by a fast technological development. Web can be successfully used as a platform for implementation of diverse applications. Distributed and collaborative systems are among the most challenging Web applications. TANGO is an integration platform which enables implementation of Web-based collaborative environments. The system provides means for fast integration of Web- and non-Web-applications into one multi-user collaborative systems. In this paper we describe the functional model, requirements, system design and certain implementation issues of the TANGO system. 1 Corresponding author: [email protected] 2 On leave of absence from EFP, Poznan, Poland 3 This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Defense under Rome Laboratory Collaboration & Interactive Visualization Contract No. F 3062-95-C-0273-01 and by Polish KBN grant No. PB1173/T11/95/09 2 1. Introduction During the recent years we observe a still...