Web enabled, CORBA Driven, Distributed VideoTalk environment on the Java']Java Platform

Nothing probably gets people more accessibility than the ability to be everywhere without actually being there ever. The article presents a general overview of a Java driven, distributed framework for networked real motion multimedia on the world wide Web. It presents the obstacles and difficulties one must inevitably face to make real video, Web centric, network Java applications a reality. The paper is primarily intended to outline one of the most, as it is perceived, feasible ways to meet the challenge at this stage of Sun's Java technology. It emphasizes the benefits brought and limitations imposed by Java on the architecture of a multimedia system. It sketches out the ways the designers of Java VideoTalk Environment (a.k.a. VTE) System tried to exploit the former and to overcome the latter. The article also portrays an attempt to build the entire video system on top of OMG's CORBA computational model, facilitating enormously VTE's interoperability with ABS from Oracle/Olivetti Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK and, to a certain degree, with IBM's aglets. (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.