Web-based product design review: implementation perspective

Product design review is one of the typical scenarios of collaborative product development. We developed a Web-based prototype framework for supporting collaborative tele-product design review on the Internet. It provides a suite of tools to establish and manage the new product design review process. The paper discusses the issues related to the development and implementation of Web applications in prototype implication. The typical 3-tier architecture is explained to show how the CyberReview components work together to achieve the intended functionality. VRML EAI and Java Applet-Servlet pair technology was included to support the implication.