Shared Places and SPDL - Overview
Shared Place/Portal on the Web - the virtual place on the Web where people can meet and work together. They can use provided content and tools for collaboration and possibly creating new content. Basically, it is a ordinary Web page with collaboration and customization functionality added
Shared Place Definition Language (SPDL) is an XML based application that implements the idea of collaboration as a Web page content. It enables creation of Shared Places. HTML includes Java Applets Active X etc.
SPDL offers:
- syntax for defining collaboration functionality of Web page content
- mechanisms for merging seamlessly collaboration content with the regular Web page content
- constructs to customize behavior of collaboration content depending on required policy