Integration Guide

Table Of Contents
Architecture Overview
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2. Architecture Overview
The Portable Shopping System utilizes Symbol Technologies’ proprietary WaveWorks three-
tiered architecture, which provides clear separation of the user interface, business logic and
database portions of the system. For the PSS, WaveWorks provides application messaging
functions and manages distributed objects on the Microsoft Windows NT platform.
2.1 Introduction to WaveWorks
WaveWorks is a light weight, high performance, three-tiered, application messaging and
distributed object management architecture which is designed to run on the Windows NT system
platform. As a horizontal system component, WaveWorks can serve as the backbone
architecture for a wide variety of multitiered client/server applications.
The WaveWorks system provides the following application services:
Thin client radio terminal environment (reduces system administration costs)
Radio Terminal display and client state management
Client-to-Server and Client-to-Client messaging service
Business Service object broker
Configurable Business Servers
Distributed business service objects
Load-based object instancing
Load balancing
Service based instancing
DBMS connection sharing
Client specific object instancing
Web-based system administration.
Application user password validation and security service