MEDIAWARE - A DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT WITH INTEROPERABILITY

MediaWare is a distributed multimedia environment based on state-of-th e-art distributed object computing standards as specified by CORBA. Me diaWare enhances interoperability among media objects through the inte roperable virtual connection protocol. MediaWare provides an infrastru cture for building interactive multimedia applications that support sy nchronized, time-based media in a heterogeneous, distributed environme nt. This paper discusses MediaWare's architecture and its object life cycle. MediaWare's architecture includes an application layer; a quali ty-of-connection layer, which is an aggregation of the quality-of-serv ice in addition to the user's interaction and synchronization requirem ents; an interoperable virtual connection protocol layer; an objects d atabase including the interoperable database layer; an object request broker layer; an interface definition language (IDL) mapping layer; an d finally, an object implementation layer. The paper includes examples to show MediaWare's power to generate several multimedia teleorchestr ations and scenarios.