Recent advances in multimedia network systems have led to the development of a new generation of applications that associate the use of various multimedia objects. The connection of audio and video devices through high speed multimedia pervasive networks will make the use of these systems more convenient. For example, many home appliances, such as video cameras, display monitors, video recorder...

The paper proposes an approach to solve the situation. In our approach, we have developed a middleware component to connect several middleware implementing these object-oriented standard speci cations for home computing. Actually, our middleware component makes it possible to connect home appliances adopting HAVi, Jini, or UPnP. Therefore, various home appliances can comm unicate with each other.

Digital television broadcast started in Finland on 27 th of August 2001. A new period in this entertainment field has already begun. Because of the importance of television in the society, the shift between analogue and digital has to be done with the viewers in mind. The User Interface of any application provides the user the means to communicate with the system. Since it is what the viewer ca...