Glossary
- aggregator
- The part of WebSphere® Portal responsible
for displaying the navigation and portlets available to a user. The
XDIME aggregator is delivered with Mobile Portal Accelerator.
HTML, WML, and cHTML aggregators are delivered with the base WebSphere Portal product.
- asset group
- A policy that specifies the location of an image asset.
- branding
- The ability to change the appearance of an entire site by applying
a particular style and layout and a specific set of assets. This can
be done without requiring changes to the underlying JSP and application
logic.
- CLI
- See command line interface
(CLI)
- command line interface (CLI)
- One of two types of user interfaces to the computer's operating
system or application. (The other type is the graphical user interface,
or GUI.) An example of a CLI is the Windows cmd.exe
(32-bit) or command.exe command prompt.
- content
- The basic information that is presented to an incoming web user.
It can be static information such as text or graphics, or it can be
generated information such as product information retrieved from a
database.
- CSS
- Cascading style sheet
- device policy
- The collection of attributes associated with a class of devices
or a specific device.
- DynaCache (WebSphere Dynamic Cache)
- A consolidation of several caching activities, including Servlets,
web services, and WebSphere commands into one
service where these activities work together to improve performance
and share configuration parameters.
- Extended Properties portlet
- A portlet that allows the configuration of the way in which a
node is displayed on a given device, based on the device type and
capabilities.
- federation
- The process of combining naming systems, such as WebSphere Portal nodes,
so that the aggregate system can process composite names that span
the naming systems. A federated system allows users to query and manipulate
data located on other servers.
- IBM® Support Assistant (ISA)
- A downloadable package designed to help customers gather and submit
information when reporting problems to IBM Support.
- IBM Tivoli® License Manager
- An IBM software product that is used to detect where IBM products
are both installed and running.
- image policy
- A generic reference to an image. A single image policy can contain
information about several images, each one targeted to a certain class
of devices. For example, banner.ming may contain
a banner.gif, banner.jpg,
and banner.bmp.
- Image Conversion Service
- A software-based image adaptation engine that converts images
to different formats so that they can be viewed on different device
types. It can be installed on the WebSphere Portal application
server or on a separate application server.
- ISA
- See IBM Support
Assistant.
- ITLM
- See IBM Tivoli License
Manager.
- ITS
- See Image Conversion
Services.
- JSP
- JavaServer Pages: A Java™ technology
with which developers can dynamically generate documents (in HTML,
XML, or other formats) in response to requests from web clients.
- layout
- The physical placement of content on a user's device. Whereas
content is essentially device independent, layout is device dependent.
XDIME can be used to help map content to layout.
- layout policy
- A means of defining how content should be arranged on a particular
canvas. For example, several device-specific layouts may exist within
a single layout policy.
- Manage Mobile Pages portlet
- A portlet that allows portlet administrators the ability to create
mobile portal navigation suitable for mobile devices, allowing wireless
devices to navigate and view a Portal website using this navigation
hierarchy.
- MCS
- See Multi-Channel Server.
- MCS expressions
- Code that enables additional information to be transmitted to
various parts of Multi-Channel Server,
such as its tags and layouts.
- Multi-Channel Server (MCS)
- A component that works within the Mobile Portal Accelerator environment
to enable the integration of input from a variety of sources, delivering
optimized output to multiple target devices. After content JSP or
XML pages are authored using XHTML-based markup, the output is rendered
by MCS on
any supported device in its own native markup.
- mwp_root
- The highest-level directory on the WebSphere Portal server
that supports XDIME, and that the Mobile Portal Accelerator user
is entitled to view.
- node
- A unit of navigation as provided by the WebSphere Portal Model
API (for example Label, Page, or URL).
- policy
- Markup definitions used by the Multi-Channel Server (MCS),
in conjunction with Mobile Portal Accelerator JSPs
generated by XDIME, to generate markup suitable for a specific device. Mobile Portal Accelerator uses
the following types of MCS policies:
asset group, image, theme, layout, and device.
- portal configuration utility
- In Mobile Portal Accelerator,
the utility that is used to install the XDIME aggregator.
- portlet
- A reusable component that provides access to web-based content,
applications, and other resources. Based on the navigation view selected,
portlets in Mobile Portal Accelerator navigation
views may be represented by a text hyperlink or by a graphical icon.
- preload notice
- A set of JSP fragments that is defined in more than one markup.
- Preload Notices portlet
- A portlet that allows the configuration of where defined preload
notices appear in the navigation, the ability to select predefined
rules that determine when a preload notice is displayed, as well as
a way to navigate from the preload notice to the target link.
- tag library descriptor
- A descriptor that defines the mapping between the tag name and
the class name.
- technology preview
- A means by which IBM provides program code on an
as-is basis with no warranty. IBM provides no support for this
code; neither does it warrant that:
- This code will meet your specific requirements, and/or
- Applications developed using this code will be compatible with
subsequent versions of the code.
Also note that some or all of the code may not be made generally
available by IBM as a product and that production use of the
technology preview code is not authorized by IBM.
- theme
- The stylistic aspects of a website. Themes are used to tie together
to visual aspects of a site and are important for company brand identification.
The thematic information for a device is termed a style. The main
theme for the XDIME aggregator (which is equivalent to Styles.css in WebSphere Portal)
is wp_styles.
- view
- One of three different markup versions for any specified type
of device. The default view is a tree navigation scheme. The
other views are icon and pda. These markup versions
are defined in WebSphere Portal by
the Client Profile, which maps a markup/markup version to a
particular user agent.
- was_root
- The root directory location where WebSphere Application Server is
installed.
- Wireless Markup Language (WML)
- A content format for devices that implement the Wireless Application
Protocol (WAP) specification.
- wp_root
- The root directory location where WebSphere Portal is
installed.
- XDIME
- Also XDIME 1. A device-agnostic markup language that is authored
in JSP or XDIME XML and is based on XHTML 1.1. It ultimately is converted
to a device-specific markup language during the Multi-Channel Server (MCS)
runtime based on information stored about the device.
- XDIME 2
- A newer version of XDIME that conforms to the following current
or proposed W3C standards: XHTML 2.0, XForms 1.0, DISelect 1.0, and
CSS 2.1. XDIME 2 offers several features that are not found in XDIME
including flexible targeting for layouts, Client Framework widgets,
and an easier way to control fragmentation and form fragmentation
link text.
- XDIME elements
- Markup entities that are usable as tags in JSP pages.