'95 Collaboratory Experiments in Alpha Java

Developer: Vishal Mehra, NPAC GRA
Started in Fall'95 using alpha Java environment
Included collaboratory Java server and a set of HotJava browsers and clients
Supported functionalities:
- Text Chat
- Simple Games (tic-tac-toe)
- Simple shared interactive 3D space navigation
Presented at Supercomputing'95 during NPAC Web Tutorial
Not continued afterwards due to: major differences between alpha and beta Java, Vishal leaving for IBM Watson
Project continued by Vishal at IBM -- to become part of collaboratory extension of IBM Web server products
Planned continuation at NPAC related to Vishal's PhD:
- starts from summer project '96
- continues as PhD topic on "Scalable Televirtuality Servers"