WEB ENABLED, CORBA DRIVEN, DISTRIBUTED VIDEOTALK ENVIRONMENT ON THE JAVA PLATFORM

Nothing probably gets people more accessibility than the ability to be everywhere without actually being there ever. The article presents a general overview of a Java driven, distributed framework for networked real motion multimedia on the world wide Web. It presents the obstacl es and difficulties one must inevitably face to make real video, Web c entric, network Java applications a reality. The paper is primarily in tended to outline one of the most, as it is perceived, feasible ways t o meet the challenge at this stage of Sun's Java technology. It emphas izes the benefits brought and limitations imposed by Java on the archi tecture of a multimedia system. It sketches out the ways the designers of Java VideoTalk Environment (a.k.a. VTE) System tried to exploit th e former and to overcome the latter. The article also portrays an atte mpt to build the entire video system on top of OMG's CORBA computation al model, facilitating enormously VTE's interoperability with ABS from Oracle/Olivetti Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK and, to a certain degree, with IBM's aglets. (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.