Using Component Technology for Group Editors — The Iris Group Editor Environment

Component technology and framework concepts are seen as the solution to typical engineering problems that emerge when building groupware. In this paper we introduce and discuss group editors as one example for the nee for component based design in the groupware application domain. We first outline the requirements for group editor applications and show how these requirements could be solved by applying framework concepts. Then we present the architecture of our group editor environment IRIS and describe the basic architecture concepts and the user interface component infrastructure ICI.