Iris - Collaborative Editing Environment

Iris is a distributed multi-user collaborative writing environment. More information about the Iris project is available in

• the short project description,
• the architecture and API description and
• the online manual.

The term Iris is not bound to a single program but to all parts of a `collaborative editor environment'. That includes:

• User interfaces for accessing and editing documents and document structures and for displaying awareness information,
• application shells for integrating standard software,
• data storage layer (replication of document data and distribution of notifications) and
• import and export tools (LaTeX, SGML, ...).

Status: In the years 1994-1996 a first C++ version of Iris (Iris-1) has been built for gaining experience with different storage and replication aspects. In 1996 we did a complete redesign and implemented the new concepts in Java. That resulted in Iris-2. Work on Iris stopped in 1998.

• Short project description
• Architecture and API description
• Publications

• Team

• Online Manual

• Links to information on other multi-user editor projects

Iris is a project of the Applied Informatics and Distributed Systems Group at the Department of Informatics at Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.

See the groups project homepage for more projects of our group. See the publication list for all publications of our group.