RE: [wsia] [wsia-req] Configurator Scenario

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Dan,

 

Just to clarify... Kingston is not a customer of 
WebCollage - I just pulled the example since memory configuration was brought as 
a scenario.

 

As for your question, we as in WebCollage often 
implement what we call ASAP (Assortment, SKU numbers, 
Availability and Pricing).

 

Implementation architecture is typically divided into 
one of the following three options:

1. (Most common) As the Producer page is being 
created/rendered, Syndicator (our product) shoots an XML message to the Consumer 
application, requesting real-time data. You can think of it as the Producer 
invoking a Consumer Web Service and/or as an event-based paradigm in which the 
Producer generates events (such as "give me up to date pricing") and the 
Consumer returns some data. Variations differ in binding between the producer 
and the consumer, the protocol used (SOAP/XML/...), size of dataset, 
etc.

2. (Common) A Web-based tool within our environment is 
used for the Consumer to manually upload pricing, etc. This data is made 
available as a dataset to the Producer application while it's generating the 
page. Variations differ in the data acquisition UI, the data formats used (e.g., 
manual update or upload of tab-delimited data).

3. (Less common, we don't have this within the product 
yet). The Producer periodically "pulls" data from a Consumer data store and 
stores it into its database. The Producer application uses the data to render 
the pages. Variations differ in the protocol (HTTP/FTP), security, data formats 
and data sizes.

 

Having said all this, I am not sure whether this is 
under the scope of the WSIA committee or whether we should leave it to be 
implementation-specific, as above. The only scenario which seems to be "generic" 
in the above is the first one, as the concept of "events" (in our product we 
call it plainly "messages") seems to be pretty common and has been around in 
component architectures for a while.

 

Hope that answers the question... we can also take it 
offline if there are specifics which you feel are beyond e-mail 
correspondence.

 

Eilon

  

  
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Gisolfi 
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Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:29 
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Subject: [wsia] 
  [wsia-req] Configurator Scenario

  
Eilon, 
In the Configurator scenario 
  that you posted, "The configurator is 
customized in 
  real time to display buy.com assortment and availability." 
Is this capability currently implemented by WebCollage -- and if so, 
  how? 

  
Dan Gisolfi 

  
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