Inprise Application Server.

Inprise/Borland have announced the Inprise- Application Server 4.1. Based on open industry standards, Inprise Application Server See Borland AppServer. provides a foundation for customers to deploy industrial-strength Internet applications with support for Enterprise Java Bean (EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. ) and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global technology. This technology allows companies whose business models are based around large volumes of transactions, such financial institutions, to closely integrate their existing systems with the new EJB enviromient.

New features of Inprise Application Server 4.1 include: Wireless Access Protocol (WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point.

(2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. ) support.

Enhanced EJB transaction support with full two-phase commit VisiTransact? - a high performance transaction manager supporting 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

2.Q/XA VisiMessage - tightly integrated JMS implementation Advanced object to relational mapping for EJBs Integration support for Thought Inc.'s CocoBase? and other 3rd party O/R mapping tools.

Enhanced User Interface for high developer productivity and new wizards to simplify rolling EJB applications out to multiple containers

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Title Annotation:	Inprise/Borland Corp.'s Inprise Application Server 4.1
Publication:	Software World
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Date:	Sep 1, 2000
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