Installation guide

Named classloader support
6 EAServer
• Component-oriented deployment
You can easily define reusable
networks of Handlers to implement common patterns of processing your
applications, or to distribute to partners.
• Transport framework Axis has a clean and simple concept for
designing transports, and the core of engine is completely transport-
independent.
• Web Services Description Language(WSDL) Axis supports the
WSDL version 1.1, which allows you to easily build stubs to access
remote services and also to automatically export machine-readable
descriptions of your deployed services from Axis.
Named classloader support
EAServer 5.3 now supports named classloader. The named classloader allows
multiple applications to share a common classloader. It permits sharing of
classes between applications without the need to be loaded by the server
classloader.
Every entity that uses classloader in EAServer is allowed to define its own
named classloader. The named classloader can also be configured in a
heirarchy that allows a parent classloader to load shared classes.
Additionally, it reduces the memory footprint of an application since it loads
the infrastructure classes just once.
Oracle 10g support
EAServer 5.3 now supports Oracle 10g database for PowerBuilder and C/C++
components.
For more information, see “Oracle databases” in Chapter 4, “Database
Access,” in the EAServer System Administration Guide.