X-WINDOW BASED GROUP COLLABORATIVE EDITING SYSTEM

Group collaborative editing is an activity by which people geographica lly dispersed can edit the same document simultaneously. It makes use of computers and network communication to provide an interactive and c onvenient environment, so people can save much of their time and cost. We have developed a group collaborative editing system which not only allows participants to jointly view and process multimedia documents but also provides real-time interactive conversation facilities to let users feel realistic and friendly. This paper describes the concepts of group collaboration and the mechanisms of our system. It also prese nts the interface design strategy and the synchronization control meth od.