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- Java Cup Submission
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- Here is our submission for the Java Cup in the category
- internet.
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- The applet is installed at
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- http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/IMMD-IV/Projects/como/javacup
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- Como provides a framework for multi-player games and groupware
- applets. We hope that it will integrate various programs for
- communication between internet users. If everyone who develops a
- multi user applet writes their own proprietary code for networking
- and user database, a lot of unnecessary development work is done. Also,
- the user does not have an integrated environment for multi user applets.
- Como provides such an environment. You log on once, and you can use
- a variety of applets (we call them commlets). If you chat with someone through
- como and decide you want to play a game with them, you don't have to tell them
- to start a different program, call a certain web page, or anything. You can
- just click on the name and start a new commlet with them.
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- The WWW has made it easy for everone to RETRIEVE information, but inter-
- active USER-USER communication is very hard to do. I think that java
- can be for user-user communication what the web was for information accessing.
- And I hope that Como will standardize the way these communications are started
- up and transferred over the net. It is an open interface that completely
- separate the COmmunication Applet ("Commlet") from the actual underlying
- network transfer protocol. Right now we are using irc, but the
- system is open for other implementation we have started to work on.
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- Java is the optimal platform for this kind of applet. Commlets will be transferred
- online when needed, no need to install anything, usable on all platforms.
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- The Commlets we submit together with the two ComoClient applets in this tar file
- are just small examples for the unlimited possibilities como offers.
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- For general information and installation instructions for como,
- please read the file README.como.
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- The source and a running installation of the applet is available at
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- http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/IMMD-IV/Projects/como/javacup
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- Please be patient, the links are sometimes very slow.
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- This tar file includes a number of html files describing the
- system and embedding its applets.
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- When we first registered, our personal information seemed to be
- incomplete. We sent two e-mail messages a while ago correcting
- the information. They are included in this tar file as update1.email
- and update2.email.
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