From: Dave Winer (dave@userland.com)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 17:19:38 PST
Sitelets sound a bit like what we're calling "Desktop Websites". I actually
kind of liked the term.. Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Olds" <colds@dydax.com>
To: <fork@kragen.dnaco.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 5:09 PM
Subject: Another P2P XML J2EE player?
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/pipreviews/0,9836,452016,00.html
> http://www.consilient.com/indexnoflash.html
>
> These guys have apparently been around for a bit, but I don't remember
> seeing anything about them or InfoCanvas (who they used to be). They are
> using Java (J2EE) for their Sitelets (yeech!); they apparently expect that
> people will buy and sell Sitelets, but there aren't any details on their
> site.
>
> /cco
> _______________________________________________
>
> "Consilient touts flexible collaboration without boundaries through
process
> management. Leveraging P2P communications, Consilient's small, portable
> applets called Sitelets let individuals initiate and control transactions
> without requiring other parties to use similar setups. Individuals become
a
> part of an open collaboration community, thereby overcoming the barriers
of
> traditional closed collaboration systems. Large enterprises can benefit
from
> the flexibility of Consilient's P2P community model. To understand
> Consilient, you must understand Sitelets -- self-contained, portable XML
> documents containing the components of a business process (visual
interface,
> business logic, and data). Think of a Sitelet as a mini-application server
> that can be delivered via any Web-enabled application or device such as
> e-mail, a URL, or a PDA."
>
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