Co-service:from groupware to service-oriented collaborative systems

Distributed teamwork is becoming an increasingly popular work style in modem society.It has been widely accepted that computer-supported cooperative work can greatly improve the efficiency of distributed teams.However,it is very difficult for traditional groupware systems to adapt to the flexible and diverse application requirements.Ser- vice-oriented architecture and Web services technologies provide a promising way for building highly flexible collabora- tive systems.The design of service-oriented collaborative systems was investigated,focusing on the system architecture, collaborative service reference framework and collaborative service interaction models.Such a service-oriented system design was expected to be able to improve the flexibility of collaborative systems,simplify the development of collabora- tive applications,and allow the seamless integration of collaborative services with other applications.