A Java-Implemented Message-Routing Framework for World Wide Meet

Abstract

We have introduced an idea called World Wide Meet (WWM) to support horizontal interaction ability for the netizens who are surfing on the webs [4]. With WWM support, users browsing the same web page can be notified automatically when anyone joins or leaves the page. Each page of a web is just like a virtual room and the netizens in the same room can interact with each other. In this paper we propose a generic message-routing framework to support the functionality required by WWM. We further implement the framework in Java technology. By using this Java-implemented framework, WWM can be seamlessly integrated with the webs without and additional effort. This framework can be further applied to various web applications including electronic commerce, and distance learning , etc.