:: Interesting pervasive portal solution [Propylon] ::
I just finished reviewing Propylon's website info for Mission Control and found it interesting. From first impressions I really like the product and approach.
Without going into any technical depth (as I don't have enough knowledge about the product), it seems a similar proposition to Volantis (praised earlier by me). However, its key strength seems to lie in its powerful data transformation capabilities on the input stream, taking any data format and converting to XML. Not surprising, as it leverages Propylon's PropelX solution for business data integration [PDF 283kb], XML being a key long-time strength of Propylon who forwarded the XPipe methodology for pipelined XML processing and transformation. When I last had a demo of Volantis, XML support was just being added, but that doesn't solve the problem of how to handle input streams that are not in XML (probably a large proportion of the content).
I am lacking any details about how Mission Control facilitates the guidelines for transformations from XML to the chosen presentation format. Volantis has a powerful templating design tool for device layouts. I'm also not sure how the transformation takes place, Volantis using their own tag set in the JSP pages.
Mission Control runs on J2EE of course and has been tested on BEA's WLS, which just about every operator seems to be using these days (sweeping statement based on anecdotal evidence).
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