What exactly is Wave2?

Wave2 products are designed to make digital content work better and harder. The foundation of all Wave2 software solutions is the Wave2 Publishing Platform (W2PP). This is an open-standard, modular architecture that incorporates a powerful rules engine that allows us to automatically create and build documents. These documents may be in a variety of formats, for print or for electronic delivery depending upon the application.

The Wave2 publishing platform is built upon the latest industry-standard technologies. Fully J2EE compliant, it utilizes a J2EE Application Server to support its configurable rules engine. This innovative platform provides a fully open environment for the modular components of the Wave2 software solutions.

All content is normalized in XML form and processed internally using XML standards and transformations.

The Zeus Profile Manager provides a highly configurable reader profiling tool. It automatically interrogates the Rules Engine to build a suitable query for content search, according to the reader interests and the business rules.

A powerful XML index engine provides a fast and accurate method of searching content to extract the most relevant and appropriate content, according to the business rules. Conforming to the XMLDB standards, it is capable of searching vast content indexes in seconds. Where the solution interfaces with an external digital asset management or content system, this XML index effectively searches the external database.

The Wave2 Rules Engine is a powerful Object-Oriented Rule Engine providing natural expression of business rules. It is used to define the selection of content, templates and styles, when creating a document. This may be controlled according to the reader profile supplied by the Profile Manager. Rules may be modified or created by system administrators.

The output for print or electronic delivery is created by the Formatting Engine. Wave2's chosen formatting engine is Adobe's powerful InDesign CS software. Currently W2PP supports PDF, HTML and XML output for print and electronic distribution as well as native InDesign output.

User interfaces are browser-based to reduce systems administration and to provide platform independence. The Wave2 application software is written in Java and is intended to run under Windows Server or Unix environments.


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