WWW-enabled delivery of interactive multimedia documents

The structure and delivery of Interactive Multimedia Documents (IMDs) has b een an issue of intensive research in the last few years. In this paper, we propose a scenario based structure for IMDs and a mechanism for WWW-enable d delivery of such IMDs. The structure for the IMDs, is based on the concep t of scenarios, which define the how of the presentation and the possible u ser interactions with the IMD. The delivery mechanism consists of a client/ server system, which supports the remote presentation of IMDs. The whole fr amework has been implemented in Java using the Remote Method Invocation (RM I) client server communication protocol and the Java Media Framework (JMF) for handing multimedia objects. The system presents a promising approach fo r distributed interactive multimedia on the Internet and Intranets. (C) 200 0 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.