The Port structure animated version (Flash)

Computer engineering manager:
"The Port allows us to work with easy to use development tools.
It is a standard in web development. In this way, we are capitalising on training for our representatives."

All the functional agents of The Port are connected to the dedicated information structure: The City. Therefore, every entry or consultation of information with the help of an agent within the perimeter of The Port, will be stocked and available.

Example: A user will be able to, from his personal interface, enter the name of a client company into the search engine The Guide and find the press articles available thanks to The Wind, the correspondence thanks to The Radio, the meeting thanks to The Log-book, the internal information entered via The Wind or any other information in provenance of an application compatible with The Port.

The Port technical architecture

The plan of the Technical Architecture presents 3 reading perimeters:
- The Port and its agents ;
- The Portmaster ;
- The external environment (databases and external information)

The user accesses the environment The Portmaster and that of The Port via his navigator, in which the web pages are shown and the applets are executed. All the elements compatible with the navigator are executed without any difficulty.

Behind the navigator, used in the context of an Internet, Intranet, or Extranet, treatments (essentially servlets) are executed on the server. The Wind's documents cache uses XML specially formatted for The Port in the aim of optimising the and increasing the transaction speed. This cache helps to regulate the sending of commands to the source application. The indicators generated periodically are automatically updated in the cache, which allows an asynchronous treatment on the indicators.