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From: kgronbak@daimi.aau.dk (Kaj Gr|nb{k)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Re: BORING newsgroup! :)
Date: 14 Dec 1994 09:51:52 GMT
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
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Thus spake dcmay1@mdw033.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr DC May):

>But seriously folks, I have a couple of things to air:

>*  Large Projects:
>   What sort of large-scale projects has Beta been used for?
>   I am interested in people's experience in this area.


I'm involved in a project using the Mjolner Beta system for
constructing a platform independent hypermedia development
framework (DEVISE Hypermedia, or just DHM).  This framework 
makes it possible to construct hypermedia systems supporting 
an extended version of the Dexter Hypertext Reference Model.

Currently hypermedia prototype systems built with the DHM framework 
exists for Macintosh (68K series), Sun 4/Sun 4 Solaris with Motif, 
and Windows/NT.

The Sun versions exists in a multiuser version using the Mjolner 
Object Oriented Database. The other platforms currently use the 
single user Persistent Store library to store hypermedia 
object structures.

On Macs and Windows hypermedia integrations with subsets of 
Microsoft Office and  the Intergraph Microstation CAD system 
have been implemented. The Mac version also includes support 
for Quicktime movies.

The DHM project and the OODB project involves several people 
working with hundreds of modules and classes and many 
thousand lines of BETA code. And we have really good experiences 
using the Mjolner BETA system.

For more information on the DHM project, see papers in 
Communications of the ACM, February 1994 issue; the three 
previous ACM Hypertext/ECHT proceedings; and OOPSLA '94 proceedings. 
Info on getting demo versions can be found in my WWW page 
(address in signature). 

/Kaj Gronbak


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