An Architecture for WWW-based Hypercode Environments

A hypercode software engineering environment repre sents all plausible multimedia artifacts concerned with software development and evolution that can be placed or generated on line from source code to formal doc umentation to digital library resources to informal email and chat transcripts A hypercode environ ment supports both internal hypertext and external link server links among these artifacts which can be added incrementally as useful connections are discov ered project speci c hypermedia search and browsing automated construction of artifacts and hyperlinks ac cording the software process application of tools to the artifacts according to the process work ow and collab orative work for geographically dispersed teams We present a general architecture for what we call hyper media subwebs and groupspace services operating on shared subwebs based on World Wide Web technology which could be applied over the Internet or within an intranet We describe our realization in OzWeb