Distributed Whiteboard

Abstract: As the electronic whiteboards is getting more spread and more brands are
created, the demands of a standard is growing. Still no standard is made for
electronic whiteboards towards application programmers.

This paper describes a framework to gain loose coupling and a standard to
interact with electronic whiteboard events. It builds a framework follows a
specific pattern to standardlize implementation in application.

The electronic whiteboards are still very small units. A collection of
whiteboards has to be handled due to many of those electronic whiteboards are
somewhat small and several whiteboards should be able to act like one for the
participants.

Projection utilities is needed to hide those differences in manufacturers
drivers or if there is no projection provided in those drivers. This paper
also discusses the technical users, non technical users and student view of
having a projected or un-projected whiteboards.