A framework to support flexible application collaboration in cloud computing

Meng Xu, Qingzhong Li, Lizhen Cui

School ofComputer Science and Technology,Shandong University, China
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, China

With the development of Internet, software has more and more collaborative trends. Collaboration application is becoming a new hotspot. Development of collaborative application process is complicated and need many technologies to realize it. It is difficult for an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) or a business department to provide all application modules of a whole collaboration application. Moreover it is difficult to integrate heterogeneous application module developed by different organizations (ISV or business department). According to the problems mentioned above, this paper proposes a PaaS platform framework to build collaboration application dynamically and flexibly. Such PaaS platform can provide the ability of application delivery deployment for organizations and provide the ability of collaboration application customization for end users.