Product Details
CVE Library
Created: 2007
Active transactions, active replication, transactions, collaborative virtual environments, consistency model, distributed virtual reality
Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE) are used for collaboration and interaction of possibly many participants that may be spread over large distances. Typical examples are distributed simulations, 3D multiplayer games, collaborative engineering software, and others. The applications are usually based on the shared virtual environment. Because of the spreading of participants and the communication latency, some data consistency model have to be used to keep the data consistent. Simple models are often not providing enough flexibility and performance while advanced models thend to be quite complex and difficult to design. Active transactions were designed to overcome this limitations and they were encapsulated into the library making their reusability among CVE applications easy.