The Iceberg Project Related Work

Personal Mobility

• Mobile People Architecture (MPA) -- Project at Stanford -- Personal mobility across the user's different access devices through a Personal Proxy
• Active Messenger -- Project at MIT -- Forwards the email you get to the many channels you have in an intelligent way
• Telephony Over Packet networkS (TOPS) -- AT&T Research Project -- Redirection based on a terminal tracking server and a directory service

Hybrid Services

• Web-IN -- TINA-IN-WORKGROUP
• Integration of Internet and Telecommunication Services: An Architecture for Hybrid Services

Products Providing Integration Services

• Faxaway -- The Premier Email to Fax Service
• Email to Fax -- at Oxford University
• CoolMail -- Planetary Motion's CoolMail Service: Email by Computer or Phone
• OneBox -- Voicemail, EMail, and Fax
• ThinkLink

Voice Over IP

• Working Groups
  • Internet Engineering Task Force IETF Ip Telephony Working Group
  • European Telecommunications Standards Institute ETSI Telecommunications and Internet Protocol Harmonization over Networks Task Force
  • Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum ECTF
• Additional References
  • ECTF Framework Structure
  • ESTI TIPHON Task Force
  • IETF March 1998
  • IETF SIPTEL95

Services

Distributed Spaces/Depositories

• The JavaSpaces project at Sun provides a distributed, persistent object system in which remote agents interact with each other through a shared data object space.
• JavaSpaces White Paper
• JavaSpaces Specification 1.0
• IBM's TSpaces product is a set of Java classes that provides group communication services, database services, URL-based file transfer services, and event notification services. TSpaces can be used as a universal print service, email service, pager service, remote control service, and so on.
• TSpaces Users Guide
• TSpaces Programmer's Guide
• The Linda coordination language is a parallel computing model first proposed by Professor David Gelernter at Yale University. The model uses virtual shared memory to provide a transparent layer (tuplespace) to the application. The shared memory is accessed using six simple commands, and does internal dynamic load balancing.
• The Linda software package at Scientific Computing Associates, Inc.

XML

• Editors
  • Symposia Doc+, an WYSIWYG authoring tool that includes DHTML, CSS, and XML. Current beta is freely downloadable, available for SunOS/Solaris, HP/UX, and Win95/NT.
  • XML Pro, a commercial app.
  • XED, a lightweight keyboard based XML editor from the Language Technology Group. The alpha version is currently available.
  • Xerox' "Raven", a web based XML editor to be implemented as a Java Applet, with actions performed by servlets on the HTTP server. Currently only a prototype has been written.
  • SoftQuad has a prototype out for "XMetal," a graphically oriented validating editor, with GUI much similar to HoTMetaL.
  • Interleaf's "BladeRunner" offers integration with the visual DTD editor "Near & Far" from Microstar, included with Corel WordPerfect SGML suite.
• Query Engines and Languages
  • XML-QL query language from AT&T Labs
  • The LORE project at Stanford
  • The XML Query Language, XQL
  • eXcelon, from ObjectDesign
  • BlueStone XML Suite
  • Poet CMS
• Parsers
  • IBM XML parser in Java
  • Microsoft XML Parser in Java
  • Microsoft XML Parser in C++
  • Tim Bray's LARK parser
  • James Clark's XP
• APIs
  • SAX is a higher level API proposed by megginson, currently implemented by several major XML parsers.
• Resource Links
  • Microsoft XML resources
  • XMLTreeViewer Demo and links
  • W3C XML recommendation
• CORBA and COM
  • CORBA
  • Java RMI and CORBA
  • Type Mappings between Java and COM