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PIA
Personal Information Assistents are services that derive from PIM applications but transform the PIM concept into a networked environment of interoperable online applications. Typically, the combination of an online PIM with online brokerage services leads to new, agent-driven functionality. Deadlines might be dropped immediately into the subscribers personal schedule. A remote request of the PIA-application might get the latest stock quotes and present them in the subscribers schedule. Combined with online-brokerage, the subscriber can order immediately with a single mouse-click.
Weblicon is working on the transition from online PIM applications to value-adding PIA weblications with agent-driven intelligence. PIA technology is considered an example where 2 remote databases and applications communicate resulting in a valuable transaction that has been made easy and less complicated.
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PIM
The concept of Personal Information Management includes applications as calendar, contact and e-mail forming an office suite. MS Outlook is a prominent desktop based PIM application. Weblicon online application suite is an example of web-based PIM technology accessible via the Internet anytime, anywhere. PIM applications are considered prototypes of services that migrate from common desktop computers to centrally stored application servers on the Internet.
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Platform-Independency
WebObjects currently supports deployment on WindowsNT/2000, Solaris, HP/UX and OS-X-Server. The Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) abstracts from databases and transparently allows data exchange with any Oracle, Informix, Sybase or ODBC-capable database. Database specific SQL statements are encapsulated within WebObjects database adaptors. Weblicon also supports LDAP v3 directory server for sharing contact data and managing user authentication with a „single-sign-on“. With WebObjects 5.0 available in the second half of the year, applications based on WebObjects may be deployed as a single Java-Bean, following the Java beans standard. Due to the fact that WebObjects 5.0 will be 100%-pure Java itself it may be integrated into any existing application server.
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Redundancy
The weblicon application suite provides redundancy since all applications are based on WebObjects. WebObjects provides parallellism of the servers, of the running application instances and of the web servers. Multiple webservers are grouped together via DNS-round-robin to form a single redundant cluster. Incoming requests on web servers are routed automatically through a WOHTTPD-adaptor to multiple instances of applications, running on multiple application servers.
During a single user session at runtime, all requests are answered from the same application instance. New user sessions are load balanced among all available application servers and application instances.
This transparent and distributed architecture offers an enormous scalability and naturally brings with it a high degree of redundancy.
Redundancy of the database tier is possible with all the availability mechanisms, as e.g. a running and redundant data base server with fail-over-switching. With one or more dead server nodes, the remaining cluster will take over requests and the database remains available.
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Scalability
The use of an industry-proven 3-tier-architecture allows modern online applications to scale their database tier separately from the application server tier. With the use of WebObjects Application Server, weblicon products rely on a industry-proven application server solution with years of successful enterprise-scale deployments such as Deutsche Bank 24, TUI, Consors, OTTO, AppleStore and others. WebObjects Application Server supports multiple instances of applications running on distributed hardware, using any number of processors, each with multi-threaded sessions running simultanously. Multiple WebObjects Application Servers are dispatched through HTTP-Server-Plug-In’s using a round-robin or load-based mechanism. Therefore WebObjects deployments form a cluster of redundant applications with sophisticated load-balancing providing potentially unlimited scalability.
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SMS/SMSC/SMPP
Access of SMSC-systems via the SMPP-protocol is supported. In order to achieve this, the SMS JDK, version 2.0.1 from Noctor Consulting is used. This SMS JDK offers a Java-API to SMSC, is platform-independent and is based on the TCP/IP network protocol. Additional protocols used for connecting to SMSC are GSM 03.39, SMPP 3.3 and SMPPP 1.1. Short messages may contain standard ASCII, e.g. text messages or binaries, e.g. for mobile phone programming or updating.
Weblicon application suite profits from the SMSC access in several ways. First, it offers a comfortable way of SMS reminders. In addition, the contact management application supports sending of SMS messages to persons stored in the users address book. This functionality is accessable to all clients (HTML, WAP and Java).
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SQL
SQL allows users to access data in relational database management systems, such as Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, Access, and others, by allowing users to describe the data the user wishes to see. SQL also allows users to define the data in a database, and manipulate that data.
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Standards Conformity
Weblicon online organizer was built on standards like XML for integration of any data source and data exchange. Weblicon supports the open LDAP standard to store contact and authentication information in common directories, most often important for a seamless single-log-in. Weblicon publishes its ER-model to customers for integration. With the support of SyncML all weblicon applications offer a standard interface for data synchronization with PDAs, desktop PIMs and other address books. In addition, weblicon supports vCard (RFC 2425-26) and iCalendar (RFC 2445-47) standard and is constantly evaluating new drafts for standards in order to assure future compatibility. Weblicon is a supporting member of the SyncML initiative, an official Microsoft MSDN licensee, PalmOS-developer, ORACLE Partner, Apple Select Member und with its Java-client 100%-pure Java compliant.
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SyncML
SyncML is the common language for synchronizing all devices and applications over any network. SyncML leverages Extensible Markup Language (XML), making SyncML a truly future-proof platform. With SyncML, networked information can be synchronized with any mobile device, and mobile information can be synchronized with any networked applications. With SyncML any personal information, such as email, calendars, to-do lists, contact information and other relevant data, will be consistent, accessible and up to date, no matter where the information is stored. For example, a calendar entry made to a mobile device on a business trip is equally available to a secretary in the network calendar. SyncML is the ultimate choice for remote synchronization. SyncML is designed especially with the wireless world's tight requirements in the mind. SyncML minimizes the use of bandwidth and can deal with special challenges of wireless synchronization like relatively low reliability of the connection and high network latency. In addition to that SyncML enables synchronization over fixed networks, infrared, cable, or Bluetooth. As an open, future-proof standard, SyncML is the synchronization choice for any device or application of the Mobile Information Society!
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Synchronization
Synchronization defines end-to-end synchronization software and infrastructure solutions for the wireless Internet. Synchronization solutions for wireless phone and device manufacturers, wireless carriers and Internet portals provide exchange of remote data and personal information across multiple networks and devices.
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Telco
Short form of telecommunication company or mobile phone carrier. Vodafone, T-Online, British Telecom, KPN, Telecom Italia Mobile or Terra Moviles are all examples of European telcos.
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