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2 BES Developer’ s Guide
BES Product overview
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Team Edition: Provides a full J2EE 1.3 implementation and can service up
to 25 concurrent users on a single box. The aim of the Team Edition is to
support scalability within an architecture that delivers performance and
reliability at an affordable price. In short, the Team Edition is the optimal
solution for small to medium deployment scales that require full J2EE
capabilities.
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Borland Enterprise Server: The complete Borland Enterprise Server
product provides full J2EE support. On top of the Web Edition, Team
Edition, and VisiBroker Edition features, BES supports unlimited concurrent
users and Partitions (applications), adds enterprise-level clustering and
other high-end features.
Each BES offering is built upon the same server core, and interact with each
other seamlessly. You can choose the degree of functionality and services you
need, and if your needs change, it is simple to upgrade your license. See the
BES Installation Guide for details.
Web Edition
The Web Edition is designed for developing and deploying web applications
using JavaServer Pages and Servlets with a Java-based database. The Web
Edition includes:
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the open-source Apache Web Server version 2.0.
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the Borland web container based on the open-source Tomcat web
container version 4.1.
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the Smart Agent for object referencing and directory service for server
connection.
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Java Session Service (JSS) to store session information for recovery in
case of container failure.
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Naming Service to associate one or more logical names with an object
reference as well as hosting associations between serial names of data
sources and the JNDI names.
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IIOP Connector that enables Apache to communicate with the Tomcat-
based, Borland web container and CORBA servers via Internet Inter-ORB
Protocol (IIOP). The IIOP Plug-in leverages the power of VisiBroker to allow
for CORBA connectivity directly from Apache.
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IIOP redirector that enables Microsoft IIS to communicate with the Borland
web container and CORBA servers.
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Borland's all Java relational database, JDataStore and support for JDBC
datasources.
Web Edition features
The Web Edition offers the following features:
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a complete deployment platform for web applications.