Java Virtual Collaboration Development Environment for building synchronous collaborative application in heterogeneous environments

In this paper, we describe Java Virtual Collaboration Development Environment (JVCDE) for building synchronous collaborative application in heterogeneous environments. The meaning of collaboration in this paper is an application sharing mechanism that allows multiple users to simultaneously work in an existing single user application. In collaboration system, one of the major problems is to support interoperability in multiple environments, where, all the participants of collaboration can share the same results. But in heterogeneous environments, it is more difficult to guarantee interoperability than homogeneous environments. To solve these interoperability problems, we design and implement Java Virtual Collaboration Development Environment using JAVA language. We develop a prototype system based on the proposed framework.