Scalable and reliable synchronous collaboration environment on CORBA using WWW

Abstract

Currently, object-oriented technology is being widely adopted in multimedia development environments which provide integrated real-time services. Since various user demands cannot be satisfied with the conventional structured development technology, this trend is accelerating. This paper describes an object-oriented approach in constructing a reliable synchronous collaboration environment providing integrated real-time services. The approach utilizes the CORBA framework to support distributed objects and World Wide Web (WWW) technology to handle multimedia data. Also, by extending the real-time transport protocol, the approach supports scalable and reliable transportation of multimedia data. In this paper, we present our approach with a video conferencing system requiring high reliability.