Research on Collaboration and Management in Grid Based CAD

The importance of collaboration to typical grid computing applications is becoming widely recognized. This paper explores how to add collaborative capabilities to standalone CAD applications in grid computing environment. The method uses internal encapsulation and external encapsulation to wrapper legacy standalone CAD applications. The basic issues for collaborative applications, such as task management, data management and interface management are discussed. The proposed method is implemented with case study of prototype tools to integrate standalone CAD applications for collaborative applications.