Pervasive Commerce Portal composite pattern::Runtime pattern and
Application Integration::Population=Multi Step Gather application pattern

Overview
Runtime patterns define functional nodes that underpin an Application pattern. The Application pattern exists as an abstract representation of application functions, whereas the Runtime pattern is a middleware representation of the functions that must be performed, the network structure to be used, and the systems management features.

A Pervasive Commerce Portal implementation leverages the concept of personalization, multi-device type access, a presentation rendering mechanism, and a business rules engine. These are combined with the ability to search and index content (of various types and formats), provide collaboration, and manage content via a workflow to provide both content aggregation and a collaborative environment.

The Pervasive Commerce Portal composite runtime pattern represents a starting point for most Pervasive Commerce Portal implementations, providing a way to identify those functional areas that will likely need to be addressed when considering this type of implementation.

Consequently, the Pervasive Commerce Portal composite runtime pattern represents a preliminary step towards an operational architecture that can be implemented in a target environment to provide secure data aggregation, multi-client access, eCommerce and collaboration.

Population=Multi Step Gather application pattern and Pervasive Commerce Portal composite runtime pattern
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Design Last Updated: 12-20-2004

The Population=Multi Step Gather application pattern provides a structure for applications that retrieve and parse documents and create an index of relevant documents that match a specified selection criteria. In any Pervasive Commerce Portal implementation, the ability to locate data and information as it is updated in the system is vital. The whole value proposition depends, in part, on a Pervasive Commerce Portal user’s ability to locate the information they need. The Pervasive Commerce Portal composite pattern runtime supports this through the Search and Indexing node. This represents both the ability to free-text search or navigate the content (but only that content that should be available to the user) and to index the content as it is updated.

What's Next
If you would like to review additional Application patterns, and their corresponding Runtime patterns, return to the Pervasive Commerce Portal: Select Application pattern page.

For a mapping of products that support the Runtime nodes shown above, review the Pervasive Commerce Portal product mapping.