The basic concept of BSCW is the Workspace, adopting Macintosh or Windows terminology: a Folder
icon -- who canAs a registered user of a BSCW server you may be a member in an arbitrary number of Workspaces. And you may create Folders or other objects and share them as demanded by the tasks at hand.
In the HTML-based user interface, BSCW presents the contents of a Folder or Workspace as the central part of a page -- between a header and a footer where much of the text and icons act as buttons.
Figure 1.4-1 shows a Folder page with examples of the objects that you can create and share in BSCW. Please note that different icons are used to represent the different types of objects. In section 3.1 the structure of the Folder page is explained in detail. Clicking a button in Figure 1.4-1 will take you to a brief explanation of its action in section 6.3.
For additional comfort in browsing and managing your Workspaces use JBrowser, a Java applet installed with your Web browser. JBrowser presents the information and the actions of a Folder page in the familiar Windows explorer style. For details see section 3.2. In Figure 1.4-2 JBrowser presents the same Workspace shown in Figure 1.4-1.
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Figure 1.4-1: Example of a Folder page
Figure 1.4-2: JBrowser view of a Folder