Display and User Interface
The presentation tier converts and displays application data into a human-legible form.
It also provides an application’s user controls.
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Examples of human-legible formats and associated viewers are : | |||
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Web Pages |
Web Browser | ||
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WAP/iMode Cards |
Mobile Phone | ||
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SMIL Presentations |
Media Player (Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Quicktime) | ||
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SVG Plug-in | |||
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Technologies related to presentation issues | |||
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Hold the strucure of presentation doucuments | |||
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Hold information on how to display XML presentation formats like HTML, SMIL, or SVG. | |||
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Transforms XML business data into XML presentation formats like HTML, SMIL, or SVG. | |||
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Active Server Pages (ASP) | Java Server Pages (JSP) |
Located on web servers, ASP|JSP programs collect requests and serve web pages to web browsers. | ||
The following diagram illustrates how an ASP|JSP page converts XML data issued by the Business Tier into an HTML document using an XSLT template.