The inContext Pervasive Collaboration Services Architecture

Traditional collaborative work environments are often proprietary systems. However, the demands of todays e-worker are such that they use their own tools and services and collaborate across company boundaries making highly integrated solutions less feasible. Service oriented computing provides an obvious solution here, in providing mechanisms to loosely integrate many tools and services. In this paper, we present the inContext PCSA (Pervasive Collaboration Services Architecture), which is a reference architecture for building context aware collaborative systems that are based on service oriented techniques.