RE: Enhydra: Enhydra help please?

["Keith Bigelow" <keith.bigelow@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex,

Notifications of the type you mention require a number of elements:

a>  an alert mechanism, most likely through integration with JavaMail, that
allows for the application to pass to JavaMail a recipient [for SMS,
probably a phone number and a domain, eg 8314719753@xxxxxxxxxx, and a text
field of 120 characters or less]
b>  a workflow / state management type servlet/service that allows for the
management of events and responses to them, perhaps using a message based
middleware like JMS to publish and subscribe to these.
c>  WAP - Enhydra does WAP today, although SMS/WAP is still too immature to
do what your end user would find most compelling - send the user an alert
with a URL that allows the phone to do an internet data connection to a
stateful session within the auction environment you describe.  This
theoretically comes with PUSH in WAP 1.2 I believe.

A number of developers on this list have integrated JavaMail with Enhydra,
and that is not especially challenging.  However, I don't know of too many
that have authored a servlet or a service for workflow automation [although
this is certainly a part of the discussion ongoing at brock.enhydra.org].
Finally, look under WIRELESS on enhydra.org to get the tutorial on WAP/WML.

Net?  Check out JavaMail, and post to BROCK for recommendations on workflow
solutions.  Enhydra 4.0 / Enhydra Enterprise 4.0 is written using a new
services architecture, and this architecture will serve exceptionally well
to provide sevices like those that you require for your app [although we're
currently at Alpha3 for the project at this time].  The next drop with JMS
support should be in the 7-10 days...

best regards,
Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-enhydra@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-enhydra@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Alex Stephens
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 11:00 AM
To: enhydra@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Enhydra: Enhydra help please?


Hi to all,

I am *extremely* new to Enhydra and moreover to XML. I have for the past
year or so maintained a web site which was designed using ASP, HTML, and
CSS. So, as you can imagine the site has a rather large dynamic element in
it, allowing people to add simple classified advertisements to the site on
the fly. At the moment we are in the process of investigating new ways to
re-design the site as it is becoming quite large and cumbersome to keep up
to date and administer.

In our plans, we would like to facilitate new services such as a SMS (Short
Messaging Service) notification to users based on a registration for such
events. Example, Bob advertises that he wants to -BUY- a particular
colletable, say '1956 Wholewort Stamp'. Somebody else, say, Fred comes along
to the web site and advertises that he would like to -SELL- a '1956
Wholewort Stamp'. At that instance Bob should get a text message to his cell
phone from our website saying that a '1956 Wholewort Stamp' has become
available.


Phew! What we would like to do as students is to find out how XML and
moreover the Enhydra technology framework may help us in this quest! Is it
possible to use XML to design a website from scratch, whilst catering for
the same kind of functionality that we possess at the moment i.e. Visually
appealing graphics, the ability to add dynamic content on the fly etc. etc.
How portable would a site created using the Enhydra framework be into a
Wireless environment for e.g. WAP?

Thanks you for your time and for reading this!

Confused,

Alex Stephens.

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