Towards an Open Multimedia Service Framework LIDIA FUENTES AND JOSà M. TROYA Depto. de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Málaga. E29071- Málaga (SPAIN) This paper describes a component-oriented framework (MultiTEL) for the development of multimedia services (MS) on top of the Web. The principal contribution of this work is the application of componentware technologies to a large-scale system. We propose a compositional model that defines the architecture of an MS as a collection of components that interact through connectors. MultiTEL architecture supports the reuse of both standard components and common interaction patterns of advanced MS. These services run on a distributed platform that supports the dynamic composition of MS components and connectors, by using Java/RMI technology. Additional Key Words and Phrases: Compositional Frameworks, Multimedia Services, Distributed Systems, Java/Web. A COMPONENT-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE FOR MS Within multimedia service platforms, many independent providers offer different kinds of services to a large population of consumers. User choice of the service provider implies that MS need to be much more responsive to evolving user requirements. This kind of competitive market and the complexity of the application domain provide appropriate conditions for the effective application of any reuse process [Schmidt and
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