What is MultiTEL? 

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Multimedia telecommunication services impose the challenge of building an ope service infraestructure for supporting the distributed execution of these applications. The rapid adoption of Internet standard is prodicing an avalanche of new products and also the emergence of Web-based information networks called Intranets.
Software composition helps designers cope with the construction of open systems, such as the family of multimedia telecommunication systems (MTS).
In order to integrate multimedia services on the Web, we have constructed a complete extensible compositional framework called MultiTEL (Multimedia TELecommunication services) that tries to shorten the development time of multimedia services. MultiTEL encapsulates an architecture of MTSs as a collection of computational components controlled by connectors that abstract coordination patterns. The compositional model enforces framework deployment by  the specialization of standard components, common interaction patterns and service architecture.
MultiTEL also defines a distributed platform that supports dynamic composition of components an connectors, by using Java/RMI technology and the Web. In fact, MultiTEL implements a dynamic binding method that plugs components into connectors at runtime. This makes the system architecture more ope since there is no need to know the references of components and connectors at compile time, facilitating the construction of customizable services.