MultiTel is a compositional framework for developing collaborative multimedia applications, and also designates a Web-based distributed platform that supports intercomponent communication. This article shows how compositional and coordination paradigms can be successfully applied to design cooperative Java applications with multimedia data exchange. The focus is on multimedia and network architectures, which define generic and specific components coordinated by connectors for resolving the resource management needs of collaborative applications. The MultiTel platform composes application components dynamically, providing mechanisms for building services with plug-and-play transport and multimedia resources.
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