[AG-TECH] Whiteboard in AG?

[Robert Olson]

This was with the prototype code, so it won't port directly over; it would 
be a trivial shared app - the shared data would be the multicast group to 
be used, and all the client app would do is start up wbd on that group.

--bob

At 10:59 AM 6/22/2004, Adam Carter wrote:


>Robert Olson wrote:
>| we did a demo at sc a couple years ago of wbd integrated with the ag2
>| prototype system, seemed to work pretty well (though it requires
>multicast,
>| and as I recall doesn't use straight RTP so the RTP reflectors don't
>help).
>
>Hi Robert,
>I'd be interested in hearing more about this wbd integration. Does it work
>like a normal AG2 shared app? Has it ever been tested with AG2.2? Does it
>use AG's infrastructure for the communication of events between instances of
>the application?
>Is there any documentation available anywhere which describes specifically
>the use of wbd with Access Grid?
>
>I've heard many people talk about their desire to have an easy-to-use
>whiteboard integrated with AG, so if there's one out there, it begs the
>question as to why it isn't being used more widely. It seems to me that it
>is important enough functionality to be distributed with the main AG
>toolkit, or at least mentioned in documents like the User's Guide to Shared
>Applications. Do you know if there are any plans for either of the above?
>
>Any comments on, or answers to, any of the questions above would be
>gratefully received!
>
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