An important BSCW function for supporting cooperative work is to inform the members of a shared workspace that something has happened. For this purpose, BSCW records each action on an object as an event. Each member of a workspace will be informed about the events inside the workspace.

BSCW provides several event services that support different levels of awareness about the activities in your shared workspaces. You may select from this set of services the most suitable for your needs. Moreover you may specify for which types of events you want to use the selected services. The services include event icons on the Web interface that indicate recent changes on artifacts, a daily workspace activity report that is delivered to you by email as well as immediate notification via email or by the special JMonitor Java Applet.