Current Status and What accomplished since April:

1. A new Oracle development server installed 
   . on a SUN Solaris machine
   . mostly for to RLCIV project as a development
     platform for
	. Oracle/Java development
	. full-text search systems with context server
   . several important software installed
	. Oracle 7.1.6 RDBMS server
        . Oracle TextServer 3.0.4.5.0
	. Oracle WebServer 2.0.1
	. Java JDK 1.0

2. A multi-user, cartoon-style Java-based online Chat system
developed, originally at EFP, to be continued under the RLCIV
project
   . a multithreaded chat server in Java
   . chat client written in Java, accessible as Java applets 
     from a Web browser
   . http://koum.npac.syr.edu:1972/

3. Enhancement of the AskNPAC Chat-board system
   . rewritten some user interface with JavaScript to
     replace the refresh effect by the 'client pull' technique
     used in the previous implmentation
   . redesign of most chat client interface with better layout

4. Technology evaluation and comparison study
   . Integration of Java and Database technologies in WWW
       . approaches/systems under consideration
          . JDBC from JavaSoft
	  . Weblogic
	  . LiveWire from Netscape
 	  . Oracle WebServer 2.0 from Oracle
   . Migration from SQL*TextRetrieval to Oracle TextServer3