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The Mithril J2EE consolidation framework
Do your customers want to leverage the internet to present services or sell goods? Do you want to expand your business by offering a set of services to one or more customers? Do you need a maintainable deployment structure that permits adding new channels, languages and services as they are needed?
If these are parts of your requirements, the Mithril framework
is for you. Mithril provides true J2EE reuse, permitting services
to be implemented once and used anywhere - for any organisation.
Mithril moves the boundary of today’s portals, providing a full application integration platform which lets multiple organisations (companies, brands sites, associations etc.), multiple channels (HTML, WML, SMS etc.), multiple languages (English, Spanish, Swedish etc.) share a standardized J2EE and Web service structure.
Rationale
Frequently when corporations set up a web presence, their wiew of the "site" is in reality a one-locale, one-channel site which connects to tailor-made services in the business object layer. Each call transgresses these logical layers in a structured way, illustrated by the image right.
If your organisation use a common J2EE development and deployment approach, adding a new communication channel (such as WAP or Tiny-HTML for PDA devices or 3G phones) becomes a complex process. Quite a lot - if not all - of the code must be rewritten and restructured if the same service should deliver output for the new channel.
As a contrast, the Mithril framework provides a structured and modular approach that permits you to add channels, locales (languages), services and organisations in your own tempo as you see fit. Should Foo corp management launch a campaign to attract customers in the 3G PDA market, the Mithril platform provides a simple way to integrate a new 3G-HTML channel and an SMS channel into the already existing services [in this case illustrated by the email service].
The Mithril Advantage
- Flexibility. Mithril runs on several J2EE-compliant application servers. Other vendors require you to use particular application servers or backend/database systems which lock the organisation to costly or poor choices.
- Simplicity. While powerful, Mithril provides a unified development and deployment strategy which yields low TCO. Other vendors offer a mix of different products which require lots of costly hours to deploy - frequently, a diverse mix of products is counterproductive compared to a unified foundation for building applications.
- Intelligence. The Mithril foundation was built by people with experience of several portal projects. Mithril was born to rectify the collective shortcomings of other vendors’ solutions.
- Swift ROI. Mithril natively supports several applications within a single environment, so customers may use streamline service integration. Other vendors require customers to build completely separate sites for each organisation which increases cost and time to full return of investment (ROI).
