JACIE-an authoring language for rapid prototyping net-centric, multimedia and collaborative applications

Author

Haji-Ismail, Abdul S. ; Chen, Min ; Grant, Phil W. ; Kiddell, Mark

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Wales, Swansea, UK

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

385

Lastpage

392

Abstract

With continuous acceptance of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a de facto standard for human-computer interaction and human-human communication, it is desirable to develop net-centric, multimedia and collaborative applications. We present a new scripting language, JACIE, designed to support rapid prototyping and implementation of such applications. The necessity to support the management of multimedia interaction and communication in collaborative applications is highlighted. JACIE facilitates such support through the concepts of channels and a collection of interaction protocols. JACIE also features a template-based programming style, a single program for both client and server, and platform-independence by using Java as the target language. All these features characterise a desirable multimedia software engineering tool

Keywords

Internet; Java; authoring languages; groupware; information resources; multimedia systems; software prototyping; JACIE; Java; World Wide Web; authoring language; collaborative applications; human-computer interaction; human-human communication; interaction protocols; multimedia applications; net-centric applications; platform-independence; rapid prototyping; scripting language; software engineering; template-based programming; Application software; Collaboration; Communication standards; Java; Multimedia communication; Protocols; Prototypes; Standards development; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Software Engineering, 2000. Proceedings. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0933-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSE.2000.897240

Filename

897240