Framework for Developing Web (Text-Based) Teleconferencing System.

Abstract

The use of Internet and other high performance computing technologies are common among people around the globe. We develop a Web (text-based) Teleconferencing System (WTS) that is built using open standards with the vision to meet different scalability and security needs for conducting text-based conferencing among different people in different locations around the world. This system provides teleconferencing features which include support for hosting open and closed-type multiple conferences simultaneously as well as support administrative features like creating/deletion of conference rooms, creating/deletion of users and moderation of users. The research methodology used in this research is object-oriented. The platform of this system is J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) and it adopts four-tier architecture. We employ MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework to structure the problem-domain classes into model, view, controller components. The MVC framework is implemented using J2EE APIs (Java 2 Enterprise Edition Application Programming Interfaces)-Servlets for Controller, JSP (JavaServer Pages) and Servlets for View, and JavaBeans for Model. The functionality of this system is flexible and reliable.