Tool integration in a process-centred Web-based teamwork support environment in Java

Focuses on the tool integration perspective in software development in order to address the application of traditional tool integration mechanisms as well as new integration mechanisms based on the World Wide Web and Java. Our process-centred Web-based teamwork support environment is used as a case study to illustrate the potential power for tool integration. Research into process-centred teamwork has been intensively carried out in communities such as software and business engineering, computer-supported cooperative work and information systems for more than a decade. However, given the exposure of the Web and Java, a significant impact has formed to computer-mediated teamwork so that it can be beneficial to most people, including both computing and non-computing professionals. This paper pays special attention to the tool integration mechanisms used in our Web-based teamwork development environment prototyped in Java, with respect to the access to Web data and integration with applications.