| Summary: | Embedding multimedia contents such as audio and video into a Web page promotes
wide applications on the Internet. However, to present web-oriented interactive multimedia
raises extra requirements on network bandwidth, synchronization mechanisms,
presentation engines, and authoring environments. Moreover, the heterogeneity of the
Internet environment calls for open applications to fulfill these requirements seamlessly
on various platforms.
This paper proposes an approach to create Web-oriented synchronized multimedia
documents by integrating the latest development in Java, Java Media Framework,
JavaScript and HTML. As the result a WebSmart system is produced. It includes
a presentation engine as well as an authoring environment, and it also realizes two levels
of inter-object synchronization. Designed using an Object-Oriented methodology
and implemented in Java, it aims to be a platform-neutral application.
This paper introduces the system architecture and the technology framework of
WebSmart system. Performance analysis and future work are also presented at the end
of the paper.
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