| Vicinity Server - Introduction | |
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server is the core component of the vicinity service. It computes and manages the
neighborhood for all users. The vicinity server is a background service like the WWW
server. It provides information about users, whereas the WWW server provides documents. The vicinity server collects information about users, their position on the Web, about documents and their interconnections. User interfaces connect to the vicinity server to fetch information about other users in the vicinity and the local web structure. Information gathering components submit locations of users and user properties to the vicinity server.
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 Peer vicinity servers communicate with each other. They exchange user locations and hypertext references. Vicinity servers create a loosely coupled network to allow for neighborhood displays which span multiple web sites. The actual implemention of the vicinity server is called VICI. Choose from the menu on the left side to learn about installation, configuration and operation of the vicinity server.
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