OOGP'97 : Advance Proceedings

This position paper addresses the question whether existing frameworks for single user application development can generally be used on top of an OOGP as they are. The paper negates this question by using the example of synchronous document-based groupware (SDBG). Some SDBG-specific requirements for a groupware platform architecture are postulated and it is shown how these requirements conflict with the usage of a typical framework for the development of single user interfaces. The requirements concern the kind of replication technique needed for SDBG to ensure both easy development and efficiency at run-time. The conflict with traditional user interface frameworks is identified to be the problem of update upon change of replicated