Educational Glossary VIII

• Habanero from NCSA supports elegantly synchronous sharing of Java objects allowing multiple clients replicated views of arbitrary Java objects. Runs as a Java application and cannot be integrated with major browsers except HotJava

  • Sharing same as collaboration

• Tango from NPAC is a Web browser based synchronous collaboration system allowing objects to be in any language including Java, VRML, JavaScript, C++

  • User must supply events to be shared through well defined API’s
  • Needs a plugin for Netscape3 but uses signed Applets and no plugins for IE4 and Netscape4

• Habanero and Tango both support event sharing model

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