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Foil 15 Shared Event Collaboration Framework

From WebFlow and Friends for Education and Science Portals NCSA Portal/Metadata Meeting -- October 22-23 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Haupt


Objects register (using technology like Jini or that in WebFlow ) and then define their state or its change via a stream of events
Need to share (federate) events between domains (your PC, Supercomputer, PDA and mine) whose event services are normally isolated
"Tango or Habanero Server"
Object or Visual
Proxy for Object
Event specifying Object
or Change in Object
Federate and
Queue events
Clients which receive events which are either queued (asynchronous)
or processed synchronously
Pager, Cell Phone messages; Email;
Grid Status Messages
Collaboration Control Messages: e.g. New Participant Joined
W3C, Java Microsoft Client Events
e.g. Mouse Movements



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