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Foil 53 So what do we have now--TangoInteractive

From Collaborative Portals for Distributed and Distance Learning NCSA Industrial Partners Meeting -- October 12-13 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango
2 Largely Java system enabling collaboration between general client side objects
  • If client side object is a Server proxy, then this ruse enables sharing of server side objects
  • Has API for Java applet/application, C++, JavaScript
3 API Enables sharing of events in applications
  • This is just a fancy way of saying it forwards messages
4 API Enables applications to find out about participants
5 Currently ONLY deployed for Netscape version 4.5-4.7 as uses LiveConnect to connect JavaScript to Java
  • Internet Explorer version not fully debugged
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