Getting Started with Tango II
After understanding which Server you will use, Tango must be installed on your machine. This involves installing a Netscape plug-in and also a C++ audio-video conferencing system Buena Vista
Then each time you wish to load Tango, one must download the “control application” (CA)which is a Java Applet.
- This involves selecting a particular Web Server and clients setup with different Web Servers can collaborate using the same Java Server
- Each downloaded client has a (possibly different) configuration file specifying where each Tango application is to be loaded from. This allows one to use mirror sites to improve performance
- In simplest case, everybody chooses the same Web Server
Collaboration involves two or more clients sharing information and this covers both the teacher-students interaction in education; commander-firefighters interaction in a crisis; and the linkage of researchers in a distributed scientific collaboratory.