Component-based Groupware Tailorability using Monitoring Facilities
Cléver Guareis de farias, Nikolay Diakov · 2000
Tailorability has long been recognised as a key issue concerning groupware applications in general and componentbased groupware applications in particular. Tailoring activities are usually classified according to three levels, viz., customisation, integration and extension. This paper presents an approach to component-based tailoring based on the use of monitoring extensions. Our approach allows the extension and integration of new components into a legacy groupware application without the need for changes in the existing components. Keywords Software components, groupware, tailorability, monitoring framework, middleware. INTRODUCTION One of the characteristics of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is the diversity of situations involved in an everyday project. For example, within the same project, the members of a group can combine and alternate between synchronous and asynchronous work, centralised and distributed work and collaborative and individual work. This is reflec...