Component-based layered integrated framework

With the popular use of CSCW technology in enterprises, CSCW systems need to implement not only basic functionality such as communication, concurrency control, management of cooperative tasks, cooperative awareness etc, but also particular functionality required in enterprises with different sizes, culture, and business features. Therefore, how to reuse to the greatest extent the functionality of existing applications, and provide flexible way for system configuration and functionality expanding come to be a new research direction. We put forward a layered integrated framework for CSCW in this paper, which meets well the above demands. Based on component and distributed object technology, the framework is helpful to develop flexible, configurable, reusable, and tailorable CSCW applications.