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18 vFabric Suite
18 Overview of vFabric Suite 5.2
• vFabric Administration Server enables you to easily install, provision, and manage vFabric tc Server, RabbitMQ, and GemFire
on any number of computers on your network. The server includes a REST API for each vFabric product, which provides
access to unique product features while maintaining a consistent management model across all products.
• vFabric GemFire includes an HTTP session management module for tc Server that provide fast, scalable, and reliable session
replication without requiring application changes.
• Optimized for vFabric runtime components, vFabric Application Director provides a cloud-enabled application provisioning
solution that accelerates and automates the configuration and deployment of multi-tier applications.
• Nearly all vFabric Suite products are integrated with the vFabric License Server.
• For details on vFabric Suite component integration with the Spring Frameworks, see Engineered for Spring-Built Applications.
Engineered for Spring-Built Applications
More than 3 million developers use Spring's well-understood, open-source platform to build enterprise integration and rich Web
applications for virtual and cloud environments. Spring minimizes vendor lock-in, enables code to run in diverse environments,
and helps applications retain value as environments and business priorities change. Spring's Inversion of Control (IoC) container
enables Java components to be centrally configured and wired together, making code more portable, reusable, testable and
maintainable. Spring's consistent programming and configuration model separates application logic from the complexity of
platform services and deployment. It
Spring Mobile, Spring Android, and Spring Social extend the framework with new capabilities and the ability to run on the
newest generation of devices.
vFabric Suite components are engineered to leverage the efficiencies of Spring-built applications.
• Spring Insight Operations, available with vFabric tc Server Spring Edition, provides a dashboard view of Spring application
performance metrics in real-time. Developers can test, tune, and debug applications from their desktops, without changing
code. Automatic instrumentation of Spring applications running on tc Server expose application performance from both
general and fine-grained perspectives.
• To encourage agile development and testing, vFabric tc Server and Spring Insight are tightly integrated with SpringSource
Tool Suite™ (STS), an eclipse-powered development environment that includes the latest Spring (Core, Rich Web,
Integration, Batch), Groovy, Grails, and Roo technologies as well as OSGi tools.
• vFabric tc Server Spring Edition includes commercial support for Spring-built applications, as well as for vFabric tc Server.
• Developers can incorporate vFabric GemFire data caching into their Spring applications with minimal code, providing globally
distributed, highly available data.
• vFabric RabbitMQ-based messaging solutions incorporate core Spring concepts, enabling developers to easily add AMQP
messaging to their applications.
VMware Support for Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, and
RabbitMQ
In addition to VMware support for vFabric Suite commercial products, vFabric Suite licenses entitle you to VMware support for
the following open-source software:
• Apache Tomcat (vFabric Suite Standard and Advanced)
• Apache HTTP Server (vFabric Suite Standard and Advanced)
• RabbitMQ (vFabric Suite Advanced only)
For details about what this support policy covers as well as the supported versions, see the following VMware Knowledge Base
articles: