Eyeing SOA deployments, Webalo on Tuesday unveiled a Web service called "User Proxy," which is intended to provide a consistent user experience across Web services regardless of the device being used.
Acting as a mediator between Web services and the end user, the software provides a proxy for end user interface devices such as PDAs, smart phones and notebook computers. Users are able to have a continuous "always on" presence, in which User Proxy accepts information on behalf of an offline user and then interacts with the user later.
Through the User Proxy, an application can write to a "super device" and then reconcile formatting of the application's data and the device interface protocols to match the device being used at the moment.
User Proxy also features a dashboard-type approach to the interface itself and how it should react to changing circumstances. Integrators and developers can implement SOA applications with device-independent interfaces.
Posted by Paul Krill on March 28, 2006 12:36 PM
