Office Accelerator System: Proposal and Implementation of Collaborative Editing of Web Page Documents by Means of OLE Protocol Based Editing Tools

摘要

This paper proposes the Office Accelerator system, which enables users to edit documents collaboratively on a WWW server with any OLE protocol based tools. In existing collaborative editing environments, users either exchange documents by e-mail or shared disks, or are forced to edit by means of collaborative editing tools in a specific shared environment. In the first case, documents cannot be edited collaboratively, and in the second, the fast that the editing tools used by individuals differ from the collaborative editing tools used in a shared environment presents a serious limitation to its practical acceptability The system proposed here enables users to put a template document on a WWW server system and to edit it collaboratively with their own individual OLE protocol based editing tools. Since users can browse any documents published on the server at any time, there is no need to merge documents.