01301nas a2200193   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260000900043100001300052700001700065700001700082700002000099700001800119700001500137245013300152300001200285490000600297520080400303       1999                            d  c19991 aG.C. Fox1 aW. Furmanski1 aB. Natarajan1 aOdcikin Ozdemir1 aS. Pallickara1 aT. Pulikal00aIntegrating Web, Desktop, Enterprise and Military Simulation Technologies to Enable World-Wide Scalable Televirtual Environments  a149-1600 v33 a<p>We present an approach to the next generation televirtual (TVR) environments that integrate collaboration with distributed computing and modern modeling and simulation technologies. We follow the 3-tier architecture with the Web Object (Java/CORBA) based middleware, VRML/Java3D/DirectX based front-ends and JDBC/PSS/OLEDB based back-ends and we are testing our design and the integration concepts by prototyping a multi-user authoring and runtime environment to support WebHLA based distributed military simulations. We present first our taxonomy of collaboratory frameworks and our integration paradigm, based on the WebFlow system at NPAC. We then list the critical enabling technologies that are being integrated and finally we summarize the current status of our prototyping experiments.</p>