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Pavilion: A Middleware Framework for Collaborative Web-Based Applications

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1999

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Proceedings of the 1999 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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Association for Computing Machinery

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This paper describes Pavilion, an object-oriented middleware framework for developing collaborative web-based applications. Pavilion enables a developer to construct new applications by inheriting and extending its default functionality. Reusable and extensible Pavilion components include interfaces to common web browsers, a reliable multicast protocol tailored for delivery of web resources, a leadership protocol for floor control, and a highly modular proxy server that supports data type-specific plug-ins. The architecture and operation of Pavilion are described, followed by a discussion of VGuide, a synchronous VRML application built using Pavilion. VGuide enables one user to lead other users through virtual worlds in a synchronous manner.

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McKinley, P. K.; Malenfant, A. M.; Arango, J. M. (1999): Pavilion: A Middleware Framework for Collaborative Web-Based Applications. Proceedings of the 1999 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. DOI: 10.1145/320297.320318. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 179–188. Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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10.1145/320297.320318

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