Mapping Mobile Portal Features to Your Business Needs

This section describes specific technology features of Mobile Access to help you determine which technologies are most important for your organization. Review these features while keeping in mind your organization’s short-, mid-, and long-term plans.

To assist you in developing a deployment plan in a timely and cost effective manner, this topic describes the following features:

• Dynamic Rendering Engine

• VoiceXML Support

• JSR 188 (CC/PP)Secure Remote Access

• Secure Remote Access

Dynamic Rendering Engine

The dynamic rendering engine in Mobile Access software enables content, applications and services to be delivered dynamically to a mobile device in the correct markup language. The markup languages supported are XHTML, cHTML, HDML, HTML and WML.

This enables you to implement multi-device deployment scenarios.

VoiceXML Support

Mobile Access software provides the framework required to deploy VoiceXML applications. A voiceXML application can be deployed to users who are either on a land-based or mobile phone.

Voice-enabling enterprise applications such as email or calendar are useful ways to reuse enterprise information and content. Various voice engines and developer tools from third party vendors can be used with the Mobile Access software.

JSR 188 (CC/PP)

Mobile Access software implements the composite capability and preference profiles (CC/PP) specification. Portal Server software can use this implementation to adapt content and pass on delivery context information to channels that would adapt their behavior accordingly.

This specification provides developers with a standard set of APIs for processing delivery context information compatible with the majority of Web access mechanisms that deliver context negotiations.

Writing device-independent code that can deliver content to a multitude of Web access mechanisms helps reduce costs and avoids proliferating proprietary and potentially incompatible implementations.

Secure Remote Access

The Mobile Access product supports Sun Java™ System Portal Server Secure Remote Access software, which provides proxy, URL rewriting, and VPN-on-demand capabilities. The Secure Remote Access gateway sits in the DMZ in front of the corporate firewall and provides security from outside connections to resources available behind the firewall.

The gateway provides proxy server and URL rewriting capabilities for content and applications. It also supports URL obfuscation.