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Foil 41 Asynchronous vs. Synchronous

From Technology Supercharging Knowledge: The Next Generation of Learning Communities 8th Annual Scholarship and Community Conference University of Houston (Hilton Hotel) -- October 7 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 As primary Web function is asynchronous information publishing, Web-based collaboratories inherently link two models
  • Both modes focus on the basic concept of a "shared object"
  • Both modes can share presentation tools
  • Synchronous mode may create or persistently enhance/modify shared objects
2 Web database linkage technology (based on JDBC/ Enterprise JavaBeans) promotes complex asynchronous collaboration by exposing rich data models of industrial-strength relational and OO DBMS's
3 Need Both! Tango can be linked to Oracle, Lotus Notes and similar database systems -- XML is a powerful interface for such linkage
  • Tango offers "guided tour" sampling a large asynchronous web site, CDROM, database
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