Developing applications for EBIF and tru2way™

The ongoing convergence of Computers, Telephony and Television, along with an increasing interest by Cable MSO's in interactive applications, has created opportunities for developers to create interactive rich applications on a new set of platforms. The MSO's are basing their foray into interactive applications on industry standard platforms and environments. This paper provides an overview of the two main platforms (EBIF and tru2way) and discusses the implementation of an interactive application that will execute on both platforms. Implementing the same app on each platform will allow us to compare and contrast the differences between and limitations of the two standards. It is hoped that application developers will be interested in exploring these new platforms.