Objects for Fast Prototyping of Collaborative Applications.
Luis A. Guerrero, David Fuller · 1998
This paper presents an objects-based framework for building collaborative applications. The framework consists of ten objects: box, boxObject, environment, user, role, session, broadcast, view, boxObjectType and floorControl. We argue that we can build a big number of collaborative applications, including Web applications, by combining these objects. The main aspects in the design of the framework and each object are discussed, as well as the designing and building of collaborative application process using the framework. Keywords: Collaborative applications construction, OO framework, collaborative Web applications. 1. Introduction For some time our group has been working on the technology support to the teachinglearning process in our university. We created a project called CLASS ("Collaborative Learning Applications for Students' Support") [Guerrero97] to achieve this goal. This project has two main goals: the creation of collaborative environments that support interaction among s...