Renders the user interface as a collection of HTML frames.

Renders the user interface as a collection of HTML div elements.

Uses hard coding to determine styling, sizing, and positioning. Limits the customizations you make to this style.

Uses CSS files to determine styling, sizing, and positioning. Allows you to fully modify the user interface. For example, you can create a custom user interface for a small, nondesktop environment.

Siebel Web Engine can only render an entire view.

Siebel Web Engine can render an entire view or only an individual applet.

Uses ActiveX. Limits the customizations that you can make in the user interface.

Uses JavaScript that allows you to fully customize how Siebel Open UI renders the user interface. Allows any modern, compliant Web browser to use Siebel Open UI.

An applet can only reference a business component or a virtual business component.

An applet can reference a business service, business component, or virtual business component.

High interactivity and Siebel Open UI share the following customization capabilities:

• Metadata configuration for all user interface objects resides in the Siebel Repository.
• Layout configuration of user interface objects resides in SWE templates.
• Negligible server scripting capabilities exist to render custom configurations.
• Browser scripting for proxy objects resides in the client. For more information, see Browser Scripting Compatibility.