Towards reference architectures for distributed groupware applications

Author

Sandkuhl, Kurt ; Messer, Burkhard

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Software Eng. & Syst. Eng., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2000

fDate

6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

135

Lastpage

141

Abstract

Standard groupware products do not fulfill the specific requirements of various application areas, due to technical restrictions, lack of flexibility or non-availability of adapted interfaces. In view of this situation, development of groupware products for specialized application areas will continue to be necessary. Our approach is to support this kind of software development project by providing: a reference architecture for groupware applications as a guideline for software developers; reusable components and services; and design and architecture patterns. This paper presents a view concept for software architectures, a global reference architecture for groupware applications and an example from the application field of Web-publishing

Keywords

distributed processing; electronic publishing; groupware; information resources; software architecture; software reusability; Web-publishing; design patterns; distributed groupware applications; reference architectures; reusable components; software architectures; software development; specialized application; Application software; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Operating systems; Proposals; Software engineering; Systems engineering and theory; Telecommunication computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2000. Proceedings. 8th Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

Rhodos

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0500-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.2000.823404

Filename

823404