Towards cooperative user interfaces: an object-oriented application integration approach

The development of a cooperative user interface is a vital and interesting issue due to the lack of common access and limited sharing of data among applications. In this paper, we propose a new design framework which can be used as a platform to access and integrate applications in a cooperative manner. In particular, the paper describes how applications can be integrated by using an object-oriented database approach. With this approach, the mapping between the application input/output streams and the database objects promotes the transparency of information transfer among applications.