Secondarily, the author sought some insight into the directions that web programming was going, especially in the context of the intense publicity surrounding Sun's Java. Agents - Possible future survey topic. Email - Coming Soon. Protocols like MIME permit sending multimedia documents. Smarter applications, ranging from vacation notifications or EDI services, can be built on top of email systems to interpret some messages automatically and take action.
Email systems are typically interoperable so they can exchange messages.
This section surveys a number of email systems. Groupware is software and hardware for shared interactive environments. Also, see our feasibility study on Video Conferencing , a type of groupware of special interest to distributed workgroups. Process Modeling and Workflow - Possible future survey topic. Security Authentication .