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The Cooperative Web Framework is an open source solution positioned as a productivity aid for web application developers who desire to enable an emerging class of cooperative web applications. The innovative value add for cooperative web applications is that web applications can now be used in an N:N model (each attendee can simultaneously interact with all the other attendees) as opposed to the traditional 1:N web meeting model. The framework handles remote notification of user changes, the resolution of conflicting changes, and convergence of application state using an operational transformation algorithm.

While similar proprietary solutions for web collaboration are already surfacing, web application developers lack today a simple way to enable real-time cooperation of users over applications and data in a web browser container. The Cooperative Web Framework is intended to fill this void. It is built on web standards that are being adopted by client browsers thereby broadening the scope of applicability across browser platforms and device footprints.

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Developers looking to contribute to the OpenCoweb framework beyond using it in their own applications should view the Developer Setup page in this wiki.