Two features present in all future such collaboration systems will be incorporated
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Events will be serialized in terms of XML
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Micro Tango Interactive clients will be designed to respond to events that are generated either synchronously or asynchronously
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In Synchronous case, interesting Tango applications include
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Chat Rooms
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White board for simple picture
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Tango mail
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Quizzes
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Possibly shared browser (at least to record URL)
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Asynchronous events of interest include
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Ordinary mail
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Events generated by computing portal such as job completion, errors etc.
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Jini and Java implementations are most elegant for micro device to Tango agent linkage. The necessary robust Java infrastructure will be available on a 12 month time scale
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Java will of course be particularly attractive for portable implementations useable on many different devices while
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Jini will support the inevitable mobile erratic linkages
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