Practical Internet Groupware By Jon Udell 1st Edition October 1999 (est.) 1-56592-537-8, Order Number: 5378 384 pages (est.), $29.95 (est.)

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Preface

 

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Part Four: Advanced Internet Groupware

Today's Internet tools and services can support groupware activities more effectively than most people realize. But they also promise more than they deliver. This part explores how to use the ideas underlying all Internet software - simple protocols, pipelined components, structured text - to solve advanced groupware problems. We'll see how to automate the testing of Web-based groupware, and aggregate services on behalf of groups. In the final chapter we'll explore ways that scripted HTTP services, distributed to users' workstations, can tackle problems such as offline use of applications and data replication.

Chapter 14: Automating Internet Components

The object Web and Internet groupware; Web APIs as automation interfaces; pipelining the Web; Web interfaces versus GUI interfaces; XML-RPC; using Web APIs to monitor groupware; aggregating and repackaging Internet services; a technology news metasearcher; an LDAP directory metasearcher.

Chapter 15: Distributed HTTP

The peer-to-peer Web; local HTTP servers in Java and Perl; the dhttp system; connecting dhttp to SQL data; persistent database connections; data-bound widgets and namespace completion; polymorphic HTML widgets; event bubbling; networked dhttp; data replication; code replication; dhttp in the Windows environment.

Chapter 16: Epilogue

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Part Three: Groupware Applications and Services		Appendixes

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