The principal architects are Prof. Hermann Maurer and Frank Kappe. User identification and access control Integration of existing Internet information systems Automatic enforcement of document consistency. Hyperwave offers an integrated working and navigation environment, and relies on the Internet as its base communication medium. The long-term maintenance and development of databases becomes crucial when databases grow beyond a certain size. To expedite management, particularly of links, Hyperwave imposes a structure on the documents stored in the server.
Every document is a member of one or more collections.
These collections form a hierarchy. Besides supporting customary database features such as the assigning of attributes to objects, indexing and searching, the server also maintains a hierarchy of user and group entries. Custom attributes Direct-debit, from the user's account, of the cost of viewing a document Setting of a time period during which the document is visible to the public. In addition, objects can be locked to ensure they are not updated concurrently. A Hyperwave server can contain various types of documents.