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Foil 41 Shared Places - Technology Components

From Tango Futures: XML for Portals, Web-based Collaboration and Distance Education Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Shared Place Definition Language is a language for defining properties of shared places. SPDL conforms to XML specification
Shared Object is a piece of software that can be embedded as a part of a Web page content. Shared Objects offer collaboration functionality using mechanisms provided by SP framework. To interact with SP framework, Shared Objects must implement the defined SP interface. Examples: Java Applets, Plug-ins, ActiveX objects, JavaScript Applications
SP Framework is a set of mechanisms that implement (roughly equivalent to Tango server + local daemon) collaboration services and expose them to Shared Objects using SP interfaces (discussed later)

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