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GUI = Graphical User Interface
The surface of an application with buttons, texts, controls and the concept of interaction makes the GUI of an application. The GUI of applications defines not only the look of the product but it spans the frame of possible user interaction or human-machine interaction. Weblicon strongly believes in the importance of matured user interface since usability of applications depends on the clarity and distinctiveness of the GUI. Weblicon strictly follows its own GUI guidelines as outlined in „weblicon developer white paper“.
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HTML Client
The HTML client offers access to the Personal Information Manager (PIM) via virtually every standard web browser. It can be used from every PC with online access and a web browser installed. Its elegant and user-friendly GUI is derived from the ClockWork experience. The HTML client is implemented following the classical, pure HTML 3.2 standard without using incompatible technologies such as JavaScript or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Thus, the HTML client combines ease-of-use with a maximum of compatibility.
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HTTP
WebObjects application server integrates its services via the universal Common Gateway Interface (CGI) into different HTTP servers or via proprietary APIs with special API adaptors. Webserver-specific API adaptors are preferable due to their better performance. For secure communication between web browser and HTTP servers or application servers, the HTTPS protocol is supported providing encrypted data transmission of sensitive user data.
WAP microbrowsers of mobile phones supporting WAP/WML also use the HTTP-protocol to communicate with the HTTP server that directly routes user requests to the WebObjects application server via an appropriate adaptor.
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iappli
iappli will be introduced in Februar 2001 in Japan. iappli-services use a thin-Java-based VM to run simplified Java-applets on modern KAVA devices as „Digital Mova 503i“.
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i-mode
Extremely popular digital device, introduced in Japan in 1999, with more than 18 milllion subscribers. (2/2001)
i-mode-services are very cheap and rely on a proprietary network protocol provided by NTT DoCoMo in Japan. i-mode offers a mobile, always-on technology with a packet-oriented billing of the traffic. I-mode-services use cHTML, a simple subset of standard HTML to encode content. cHTML can be compared to HTML 2.0 as it was introduced years ago. Navigation is easy through online-links
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Integration with legacy services
Integration into legacy services, databases and application server environments requires standard interfaces, protocols, APIs and open access to databases. Since weblicon online organizer supports the most important industry standards (refer to section 8. Standards conformity), integration is made easy and flexible. For third-party access to schedule or contact management information, weblicon has already implemented a standard API as documented in its WebML API draft. The API offers a flexible interface to run event content syndication via XML and to allow other accessors to share data among different services bi-directionally
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Interoperability
[...] is the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer. Interoperability becomes a quality of increasing importance for information technology products as the concept that "The network is the computer" becomes a reality. For this reason, the term is widely used in product marketing descriptions.
...to be interoperable,
one should actively be engaged in the ongoing process of ensuring that the systems, procedures and culture of an organisation are managed in such a way as to maximise opportunities for exchange and re-use of information, whether internally or externally.
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ISP
Internet Service Provider provide IP-services to connect subscribers to the Internet. AOL or CompuServe are prominent examples of Internet Service Providers
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Java Client
The Java Client can be used either as a HTML-embedded Java applet running inside a browser window or as a stand-alone Java application, comparable to double-clickable desktop applications. The client communicates directly with the server and exchanges address and event information via standard HTTP requests, thus passing common firewalls. The Java client provides a graphical user interface (GUI) and offers ease-of-use comparable to desktop applications. It supports direct manipulation, drag-and-drop, undo und double-clicks. The Java client underlines weblicon’s approach of technological leadership
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Java Programming Language
The weblicon application suite has been developed entirely in Java resulting in stability and providing a high degree of platform neutrality. Since Java grew up as an industry standard in middleware, a lot of additional libraries can be licensed and easily integrated, e.g. for support of SMSC-services via SMPP. The concept of the Java programming language assures a best-possible degree of stability via sophisticated exception and memory handling. Modern just-in-time-compilers such as the SUN HotSpot in JDK 1.3 can achieve a performance comparable to C++.
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High-Availability
The routing of incoming requests to a cluster of servers offers redundancy thus gaining high-availability. Also gained through this parallellism is the possibility for real-time exchange or addition of hardware whithout disturbing the service.
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