A Textbook Editor Based on a Customware Service

Abstract

In recent years, a lot of cooperative document edit systems are proposed and some of them are running as useful system, such as Google documents and Wiki. Although most of them can be utilized as a general use by many sort of people, the features and functions of them are not provided enough in case that specialists achieve a certain purpose. In this paper, as one of enterprise of services, we propose a new textbook/examination edit system developed by Ie-Web framework, called ”Veritas Document”. The service model and system is developed based on customware conception from the framework. The basement of the framework includes Database, AJAX engine, and several other systems in addition to the concept of implementation technique. As an actual system, we propose a new collaborative textbook/examination creation system called the CTWriter system, that works in most server environments provided it is capable of handling PHP documents. As for the client-side functions, this system requires a JavaScript-capable browser since it relies heavily on JavaScript. The system uses Ajax, which is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest, for client-server data interaction. Using Ajax, the data transfers will be seamless as all data transfers and data processing is done in the background and in real-time. Our proposed system includes some features including document edit, figure addition, paragraph change, and several others, that can be customized when the systems are developed.