Building Real-Time Collaborative Applications with a Federated Architecture

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https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2015.356

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Collaboration, Real-Time Locating Systems, API, Federation, Apache
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This work was partially supported by the Framework programme FP7-ICT-2013- 10 of the European Commission through project P2Pvalue (grant no.: 610961).

Abstract

Real-time collaboration is being offered by multiple libraries and APIs (Google Drive Real-time API, Microsoft Real-Time Communications API, TogetherJS, ShareJS), rapidly becoming a mainstream option for webservices developers. However, they are offered as centralised services running in a single server, regardless if they are free/open source or proprietary software. After re-engineering Apache Wave (former Google Wave), we can now provide the first decentralised and federated free/open source alternative. The new API allows to develop new real-time collaborative web applications in both JavaScript and Java environments.

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Ojanguren Menendez, P., Tenorio Fornés, A., and Hassan, S. (2015). Building Real-Time Collaborative Applications with a Federated Architecture. International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 3(5), 47–52. https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2015.356

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Vol. 3 No. 5 (2015): IJIMAI 2015 - Regular Issue.

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Regular Articles