“DreamTeam” — a platform for synchronous collaborative applications
Jörg Roth, Claus Unger · Berichte des German Chapter of the ACM · 1998
This paper presents a platform for developing, testing and executing synchronous collaborative shared applications in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. Even though several environments exist nowadays, specific problems are not treated satisfactorily. Especially in „real“ network environments, problems like unstable network connections and low bandwidths have to be considered. The DreamTeam platform addresses the special needs of environments with non-optimal characteristics which can be found for example in distance education scenarios. DreamTeam comprises a development environment, a simulation environment and a runtime environment; it is based upon the concept of a fully de-centralised architecture and encourages rapid prototyping. In addition to several demonstration applications, two serious applications have been developed so far: a collaborative Web browser and a diagram design tool.