The Alliance groupware application allows users connected to the Internet to collaborate for producing shared documents. This application is suited to cooperatively produce large documents such as technical documentations.
Alliance takes care of document access control and distribution.
All co-authors see the document as a whole, and each user can edit different parts at the same time. The parts on which each user works may change during the editing session. Alliance is built on top of the Thot structured document editor. This application is currently developped on Sun-OS, Solaris and Linux operating systems. Each manager of a document part can dynamically change roles assigned to other users and the document is automatically split into pieces according to these roles to allow parallel editing.