Developing Collaborative Applications On the World Wide Web

Abstract

The World Wide Web is often viewed as the latest and most user friendly way of providing information over the Internet (i.e., server of documents). It is not customarily viewed as a platform for developing and deploying applications. In this tutorial, we introduce, dcmonstrdtc, and discuss how Web technologies like CGI scripts. Javascript, and Java can bc used in combination with Web browsers to design, create, distribute and execute collaborative applications. We discuss constraints with the Web approach as well as recent extensions that support application development.