A SCHEME OF STRATEGIES FOR REAL-TIME WEB COLLABORATION BASED ON AJAX/COMET TECHNIQUES FOR LIVE RIA

Walter Balzano, Maria Rosaria del Sorbo, Luca Di Liberto

2009

Abstract

The last web applications advances, even if significant, doesn’t yet allow to substitute desktop applications: data are often redundant, user/web interfaces interactions notably differ from the user/desktop ones, data propagation isn’t fully instantaneous. This work shows some strategies for real-time client/server and client/client communications by server to manage multiuser collaboration issue in innovative ways: the user can use two techniques AJAX (Garrett J., 2005) and Comet (Russell A., 2006), recent and standard based, without installing plug-ins. Web 2.0 (O’Reilly T., 2007) was this project’s leading philosophy, by which a mash up of two features was mainly realized: a chat module and a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editor. The results show a potential cooperation among users interacting simultaneously using simple graphical interfaces, with a large work speeding up. Many applications exploit client/server interactions, directly sending updated information to connected users, as in online auctions (Wellman M. et al., 1998) multiuser cooperation (Tapiador A. et al., 2006) and e-learning (T. Chan, 2007) systems. Further details about the code and simple demos are available on http://people.na.infn.it/~wbalzano/AJAX.

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Balzano W., del Sorbo M. and Di Liberto L. (2009). A SCHEME OF STRATEGIES FOR REAL-TIME WEB COLLABORATION BASED ON AJAX/COMET TECHNIQUES FOR LIVE RIA . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-87-6, pages 35-40. DOI: 10.5220/0001858100350040


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@conference{iceis09,
author={Walter Balzano and Maria Rosaria del Sorbo and Luca Di Liberto},
title={A SCHEME OF STRATEGIES FOR REAL-TIME WEB COLLABORATION BASED ON AJAX/COMET TECHNIQUES FOR LIVE RIA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={35-40},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001858100350040},
isbn={978-989-8111-87-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - A SCHEME OF STRATEGIES FOR REAL-TIME WEB COLLABORATION BASED ON AJAX/COMET TECHNIQUES FOR LIVE RIA
SN - 978-989-8111-87-6
AU - Balzano W.
AU - del Sorbo M.
AU - Di Liberto L.
PY - 2009
SP - 35
EP - 40
DO - 10.5220/0001858100350040