user manual

Chapter 1: Introduction to Borland Enterprise Server 3
BES Product overview
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Web Services support, including Apache SOAP server integration, Borland
XML toolkit, and development tools like the Deployment Descriptor Editor.
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industry-proven load balancing and fault tolerance.
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automatic session management.
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web-enabled CORBA servers.
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a homogeneous integration to an all-Java database with support for
multiple connections.
VisiBroker Edition
VisiBroker is primarily for deployments that require CORBA to communicate
with non-Java objects, and is comprised of both the VisiBroker for Java and
the VisiBroker for C++ ORBs. Using VisiBroker's IIOP Connector, you can
quickly move CORBA applications on-line with very little coding.
Visibroker includes:
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the VisiBroker ORB, the industry-leading Object Request Broker.
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the VisiNaming Service, a complete implementation of the Interoperable
Naming Specification in the CORBA 2.6 specification from the OMG.
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the IIOP Plug-in for CORBA which routes Apache requests to Interface
Definition Language (IDL) and CORBA via IIOP, and then routes them back
as HTTP requests. Thus, Java and C++ CORBA objects can be used to
service HTTP requests.
VisiBroker Edition features
VisiBroker features:
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"out-of-the-box" security and web connectivity.
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CORBA 2.6 compliance.
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a seamless migration to the J2EE Platform.
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CORBA support like naming and event services.
VisiBroker Standalone (installation option)
VisiBroker Standalone is a smaller footprint option for VisiBroker Edition, it is
comprised only of VisiBroker for Java and VisiBroker for C++.
Team Edition
The Team Edition is a scaled down version of the full Borland Enterprise
Server. This option is optimal for small to medium-sized deployments. Using
the Team Edition, only one server can be installed per physical machine.
Clustering is not supported.