Component Based Platform for Multimedia Applications

Recent years have shown an increased interest towards multimedia rich applications. Multimedia content ranges from text or simple images to audio data, video data or animations. The increased availability of broadband Internet connections leads the way towards applications that offer high quality multimedia streaming over wide area networks. In this context there is a need for solutions that enable application developers to quickly and effortlessly develop this kind of applications. In the same time software components technologies and component based software engineering are maturing, in fact the use of components is a sign of maturity in any field of engineering.