A data management System for replicated application

Abstract

Existing groupware toolkits are always built atop a programming language or system with some enhancements or extensions to support the development of a certain category of cooperative applications. This approach restricts the areas where the toolkits could be used. We argue that an ideal toolkit should be adaptive to different cooperation modes, a wide range of applications, and different programming languages. We present a groupware toolkit for replicated applications that meets these requirements by building it from a data management point of view. The architecture and certain important runtime supports are briefly explained.