Web Enterprise Suite is an integrated suite of standards-based applications that enable the expedient and efficient construction of spatial Web-based portals providing cataloguing, discovery, retrieval, delivery, Web mapping, e-commerce and metadata management services.

Web Enterprise Suite may consist of, depending on the version and configuration requirements, any of the following Standards-based, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (SCOTS) software components:

• WES Portal - The WES Portal is a pre-configured portal that enables users to discover, view, assemble and obtain desired data and services for a particular area of interest without needing to know the details of how the data and services are stored and maintained by independent organizations and data custodians. Through the WES Portal, users can:
  
  
  • Discover, access, share and organize geospatial information and content.
    
    
  • Publish geospatial information and content for others to use.
    
    
  • Develop or use existing applications and toolkits to access portal services.
    
    
• Percipio - Percipio is a commercial data warehouse product especially suited to the needs of organizations for receiving, archiving, cataloguing, maintaining and disseminating data holdings over intranets and wide area networks such as the Internet. Percipio provides a number of interfaces for maintenance and administration of user profiles, message reception, delivery and other data warehouse configuration issues.
  
  
• Meta Manager - Meta Manager is an advanced metadata toolkit that provides metadata management. It supports multiple metadata standards and provides data providers with the ability to define, map and manage metadata content and to present this content in a number of formats including XML.
  
  
  • Meta Manager Z39.50 - Metadata toolkit that enables data providers to expose data collections and archives as Z39.50-compliant servers for clearinghouse connectivity.
    
    
  • Meta Manager WFS - Metadata toolkit that enables data providers to expose data collections and archives as OGC-compliant Web Feature Servers.
    
    
• Meta Miner - Meta Miner is a middleware gateway application that provides the ability to perform distributed searching of remote data servers and services using either the Z39.50 protocol or the OGC WFS specification.
  
  
  • Meta Miner Z39.50 - Organizations can create their own information Clearinghouse. The application includes a Z39.50 client that provides intuitive search specification fields, a clearinghouse server registration module and clearinghouse server searching. The client look and feel and operation is fully customizable and supports XML processing.
    
    
  • Meta Miner WFS - Organizations can create distributed Web Feature Server data networks. The application includes a stateless WFS client, a WFS server registration module and distributed WFS search and result set merge capability.
    
    
  • Meta Miner Portlet - Wizard type interface for selecting an Area of Interest (AOI) and performing searches over central repositories or over a distributed network.
    
    
  • Meta Miner Servlet - A servlet for interacting with the Meta Miner portlet.
    
    
• Map Manager - Map Manager is a powerful OGC-compliant Internet mapping solution providing organizations the ability to present, link, distribute and publish geomatics-based data, products and services. Map Manager provides an advanced infrastructure for users to access spatial information from disparate data sources and to display the information in powerful, easy-to-use WWW browser client applications.
  
  
  • Map Manager Client - Client application developed using PHTML and provides Web browser GIS functionality without any plug-ins or downloads.
    
    
  • Map Manager Server - A powerful OGC and ArcIMS-compliant Internet Map Server for hosting and serving a variety of vector and raster layers.
    
    
  • Map Manager Portlet - Contains all the functionality of the Web Map Manager Client but developed and deployed using the J2EE environment. Can be easily embedded into an external Web page with little effort. Map Manager Portlet comes configured with a Map Manager servlet for communication and directional messaging.
    
    
  • Map Manager Search Portlet - A “wizard” type interface for combining and dynamically interacting with search and map operations.
    
    
  • Map Manager Servlet - A servlet for interacting with Map Manager portlets.
    
    
• Service Manager - A service registry that provides discovery, access, harvesting and maintenance of Web-based services metadata. Service Manager architecture has been specifically designed to be deployed in a multi-tier arrangement of clients and servers. Discovery of services is provided through a stateless interface enabling a client to locate service metadata quickly and effectively.
  
  
  • Publisher - The Service Manager Publisher is available as a PHTML and JSP application and provides the ability for Data Custodians to publish and register geospatial intelligence applications, services, data and data products in the Service Registry.
    
    
• PHTML - PHTML (Parsed HTML) is a development and applications environment that provides Web content managers and developers with the ability to create, integrate and dynamically update Web-pages with content from Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs), customer back-end systems and external applications such as e-commerce.
  
  
  • Language Manager - Language Manager provides administrators with the ability to configure, manage and deploy multi-lingual versions of a Web Enterprise Suite Website within the PHTML environment. Translators can use the Language Manager translation facility to translate and store Website content. Language translations entered by translators are maintained in a relational database. When Website translations are completed, the Language Manager administrative interface will generate a translated Web tree providing Web users with the ability to select the language of preference.
    
    
• MAPBridge - MapBridge enables effective connectivity to ArcIMS servers configured on the network.
  
  
• WFPS - Web Feature Portrayal Service (WFPS) component provides rendering of Web feature objects that are obtained by parsing XML obtained from Web Feature Servers (WFS).
  
  
• WES Gazetteer - The Web Enterprise Suite Gazetteer is composed of three components as follows:
  
  
  • GAZ Client - A gazetteer search criteria form available in PHTML or J2EE.
    
    
  • GAZ Server - An OGC-compliant gazetteer service.
    
    
  • GAZ Database - An Oracle database populated with the USGS GNIS and NIMA gazetteers.
    
    
• Relational Gateway - A middle-tier product that provides Web applications with the ability to connect to relational databases that are maintained inside firewalls. Relational gateway may be used to connect external networks to Meta Manager databases maintained inside the firewall.
  
  
• WES Services Portlet - A dynamic portlet that provides portal users with the ability to dynamically configure and list server-side Web and thick applications for access and launch from within a Web portal environment.