Alliance Releases Netscape Application Server Upgrade >BY Rachel Chalmers.The Sun-Netscape Alliance has announced that Netscape Application Server A Web-based application server from the Sun-Netscape Alliance that supports C, C++ and Java applications, Java servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSPs) and Enterprise JavaBeans. In 2000, it was superseded by iPlanet Application Server, which became Sun ONE Application Server in 2002 when Sun (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) 4.0 will ship in August. It's a key milestone in the strategy to integrate the software - built by Kiva before it was acquired by Netscape - with its rival, built by NetDynamics before it was acquired by Sun. According to a road map issued by the Alliance earlier this year, NAS 4.0 and NetDynamics 5.1 will support a single programming model, the Java 2.0 software development kit (SDK). By early 2000, the components for management and enterprise integration should be common across both platforms. Finally, the ancient rivals are to be merged. "In the first 100 days of the Sun-Netscape Alliance, we have seen tremendous momentum for Netscape Application Server with the best quarter for the product to date," said the Alliance's senior VP and general manager for internet infrastructure products, Stuart Wells. That's hardy surprising, given that NAS was a less-than- stellar performer during its brief tenure at Netscape Communications Corp. Whole sections of the Microsoft federal antitrust trial were devoted to the thesis that Netscape's browser and server businesses were dead in the water this time last year, and that America Online Inc acquired Netscape for its portal business alone. So why did Sun take on NAS at all? It's not so much that web application servers are a hot market any more, as that the big enterprise software companies can't be seen without one. Or in this case, two. So NAS 4.0 basically offers all the features you've come to expect from an application server: support for Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), Java server pages See JSP. (JSP), Java database connectivity (database, programming) Java Database Connectivity - (JDBC) Part of the Java Development Kit which defines an application programming interface for Java for standard SQL access to databases from Java programs. http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/guide/jdbc/index.html. (JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database ) and Java servlets; distributed transaction support; optimized performance; self-tuning load balancing as an option; state and session management; failover; and multiple system management options, including Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. ) and Netscape Console. Pricing starts at $35,000 per CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . |
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