Our group has recently conducted several experiments to explore direct interoperation between specific collaboration systems. In particular, we have integrated Suite and XTV, [ Wahab Dewan Merging ] Suite and Trellis, [ Dewan Stotts Binding ] Suite and the DCS conferencing system built at University of Florida, [ DCS Wolfe ] Suite and the DistEdit system built at Michigan, [ Prakash Toolkit ] Trellis and HTML-browsers, Suite and HTML-browsers, and ABC and HTML-browsers. We have recently started projects integrating Java and Suite, and Java and ABC.
We will expand this research by
providing indirect connection, via the bus, among interoperating systems,
thereby requiring a single connection from an existing system to the bus
rather than a
a cross-translation module for every
different pair of
systems that might want to interoperate.