What’s the Point IV
Using Tango? Best platform is Windows NT as Java/multimedia flaky on UNIX
- Linux is quite popular
- Need to correctly install multimedia hardware if used
- Download Tango 1.4 plugin for Netscape 4.5. This is a simple install-shield on windows gotten from Run It! Button on Tango page
One has
- a) On each client a Plugin for browser and perhaps helper applications (e.g. C++ audio-video teleconferencing) downloaded from Tango page as above
- b) A Web Server for shared applications
- c) A Java Server to coordinate collaboration -- Tango Server can also be freely downloaded. Use UNIX or NT
b) and c) can be defaulted to NPAC or set up specially for each community
Tango has a well defined API to allow any application to be shared if C++ Java or JavaScript
NPAC offers tutorials to users or system administrators
- http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/tangotrain3june99/index.html
- http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/distedcookbookjune99/index.html