- Applications
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- Applications
- Industry
Articles
- Apps
on the edge (InfoWorld) - Moving apps from the datacenter to
the edge is challenging, but a layer of business logic is headed to the
network perimeter.
- Apt
App servers (Network Magazine India) - How do you build
servers to suit your applications?
- Explore
the World of Application Servers (JavaBoutique) - Answers to
some of the most frequently asked questions about Application Servers
with a focus on what an application server is, what it does, different
types and what to look for when selecting one.
- Total
e-Business Management (EAI Journal) - Application component
management unleashes the full power of an application server, providing
instant notification of a transaction failure, identification of the
root cause of performance problems, and maximized performance of
high-end e-commerce solutions.
- Software
- AppServer
(Borland Software Corporation) - This product is a J2EE
application server, which offers standards-compliant connectivity to
legacy systems through Sun’s J2EE Connector Architecture. The systems
that can be accessed from this server include, ERP, CRM, TP Monitors,
and others.
- Avalon
(Java Apache Project) - The Avalon project is an effort to
create, design, develop and maintain a common framework for server
applications written using the Java language. This framework will not be
a standalone product, but will allow existing and yet to be created
server applications to fit into a common platform and to share code,
design and human resources.
- Citrix
MetaFrame XP Family for Windows (Citrix) - This product
allows you to centrally configure and manage servers and server farms
anywhere-regardless of geography-with robust system management
capabilities that can be integrated with third-party network management
solutions. Citrix MetaFrame XP enables seamless application access from
PCs, Macintosh computers, UNIX and Linux workstations, laptops, wireless
devices and other network appliances.
- Domino
Application Server (Lotus) - The Lotus Domino Application
Server is an open, secure platform optimized to support rapid delivery
of collaborative Web applications that integrate your enterprise systems
with dynamic business processes. The Domino Application Server also
allows you to design applications with CORBA-standard distributed
objects, Java, or JavaScript.
- Dynamo
Application Server (ATG) - This product is a standards-based,
scalable, high-performance application engine, which provides the system
developer and application developer with all the benefits of Java,
including the easy re-use and portability of JavaBean and Enterprise
JavaBean components. It supports integration of legacy systems with web
applications.
- EAServer
(Sybase, Inc.) - This application server provides tools for
deploying Web and distributed applications using core Java 2, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) technologies. It integrates heterogeneous back-office
systems and extends customer businesses to the Web.
- ebfServer
(IBS Corporation) - ebfServer is an application server that
provides E-Business framework for your online applications. This
framework readily provides you with a robust and scalable platform for
building internet, intranet or extranet applications.
- e-BizChain™
Integration Server (e-BizChain, Inc.) - This product is a XML
solution that dynamically links buying and supplying organizations over
the Internet. It integrates and synchronizes supply chain fulfillment
transactions between trading partners through a single-hosted platfom.
- EcomTalk
(ProCaveo) - EcomTalk is a B2B integration server. It enables
companies to integrate business processes such as ERP systems, legacy
databases, EDI systems with business partners' business processes over
the Internet securely and efficiently. EcomTalk supports standard
digital dialog such as RosettaNet, EDI-INT, BizTalk and other B2B
standard frameworks.
- Electran
Application Server (Electran) - This product enables trading
partners as well as authorized employees of a company to sign on to the
company web site and conduct business using real-time data from the
back-office business applications. These users can connect to
back-office applications through a standard web browser.
- Enhydra
(Enhydra.org) - Enhydra is an open source Java/XML Application
Server. Enhydra contains additional functionality to build dynamic Web
applications, including an XML engine (Enhydra XMLC), Database
Connection Pooling, object-to-relational mapping tools, and more.
- Enterprise
Administrator (DataMirror) - Enterprise Administrator is an
enhanced graphical user interface that allows users to configure and
manage the enterprise replication process across all supported
Transformation systems. The design objective is to greatly simplify the
processes and reduce the efforts of database administrators and managers
with organizational control over enterprise data. The new Java GUI
provides users with a single unified administration point for managing
the entire publication and subscription architecture from one central
location.
- EpioBusiness
Server (Epionet) - EpioBusiness Server is primarily for the
configuring, deploying and administering business solutions in web-based
environments across Intranets, Extranets and the Internet.
- eXtend
(SilverStream Software) - This product is an integrated services
environment that simplifies and accelerates the creation and delivery of
services-oriented business applications.
- GemStone/J
(GemStone Systems, Inc.) - This product is an application server,
which services heavy loads of use while it maintains high availability
of applications. It is based on open Java, J2EE, XML and CORBA
technologies.
- GemStone/S
(GemStone Systems, Inc.) - This product is a Smalltalk
application server that supports transaction-intensive applications on
the front-end and the Oracle relation database management system on the
back-end.
- iCluster
(DataMirror) - iCluster is for customers who require even greater
levels of availability than can normally be attained through a
non-clustered AS/400 high availability environment. DataMirror iCluster
software further enhances the AS/400 cluster solution by providing the
easy to use cluster management and robust data resiliency required in
today's 24x365 e-business world.
- JOnAS
(Evidian) - JOnAS, an Open Application Server, is the Evidian
implementation of the Enterprise Java Beans 1.1 specifications. JOnAS is
a pure Java implementation of the EJB specification that relies on JDK
and JNDI.
- JRun
Application Server (Macromedia Inc.) - This product is a
complete Java application server that implements the Sun Microsystems
J2EE specifications for deploying enterprise business logic. It provides
features for transaction management and messaging.
- mBedded
Server (ProSyst Software AG) - This product is an open
service delivery platform with many ready-to-use services, such as
remote control,-maintenance,-diagnosis,-software update, and data
readout. Additionally, multimedia/infotainment content can be provided
to diverse devices or systems in home networks or vehicles.
- Open3.org
XML Middleware Server (Open3 Technologies, Inc.) - An XML
based enterprise middleware engine based on the XSTP protocol. Open3 XML
Middleware Server leverages XML, Java Enterprise API's to create a
robust, scalable and modular middleware engine. The basis for this
engine is XSTP (XML Stream Transfer Protocol), a generic protocol that
allows components to communicate using XML along data streams.
- OpenEdge
(Progress Software) - The OpenEdge platform is a tightly
integrated business application development environment that simplifies
the process of developing, deploying, integrating and managing business
applications.
- OpenLinux
Application Server with Tarantella (Caldera International, Inc.)
- This product Web-enables existing Linux, Unix, and Microsoft Windows
applications.
- Orbix
E2A Application Server Platform (IONA Technologies) - This
product makes it easy to build and deploy the new business logic
organizations need for e-business and distributed systems. Java, CORBA,
COBOL, PL/1 and VB programmers can all contribute to these efforts
employing their existing skills. Also allows developers with a variety
of skills to enter the world of services-oriented architectures and Web
services without having to learn new skills.
- Orion
Application Server (Orion) - The Orion Application Server
provides an implementation of the full Java 2 Enterprise Edition
specification. It was the first commercially available full
implementation of the J2EE specification. The new version includes an
EJB 2.0 preview, a Servlet 2.3 preview, improved graphical tools
including a preview of a new management console, HTTPS tunneling for RMI
calls, and improved EJB deployment speed.
- Recital
Universal Application Server (Recital Corporation) - This
application server includes an integrated SQL-92 database that can read
and update data across different operating systems and hardware
platforms.
- Shinka
Integration Server (Shinka Technologies) - This product
utilizes the standards of Web services, XML, WSDL and SOAP. It is
through these standards that existing applications, middleware and other
functions are accessible to other applications or employees through
intranets and Internets. SOAP-based code linkages are created between
Java, EJBs, C++, VB, etc.
- Tuxedo
(BEA) - This product is an e-commerce transaction server that
integrates corporate data, mainframe applications, and other enterprise
applications (such as ERP, and CRM). Functions that this product
includes are event brokering, transaction queuing, workload balancing,
distributed transaction management, and more.
- Verastream
(WRQ) - This product is an object-oriented legacy middleware
solution composed of server software and a set of development tools. It
allows web developers to access host-system data and logic, and feed
them into web or other client/server applications.
- VISION
(Unify) - This product is an application server and builder that
connects both legacy and enterprise applications to the Internet.
- Voyager
Application Server (Recursion Software) - Intended for
business-application programmers and EJB-component builders, Voyager
Application Server offers a true EJB development environment that
decouples application logic from systems programming logic. Voyager
Application Server goes above and beyond the Enterprise Java APIs to
support interaction of a wide range of technologies. Voyager enables
organizations to leverage their investments in technology by serving as
a bridge between legacy APIs and the new Java Enterprise APIs.
- WebObjects
(Apple Computer, Inc.) - This product is an application server
for Macintosh operating systems, which leverages the data stored in many
database systems (Oracle, Sybase, and others) as well as other
enterprise systems, including SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft. It includes load
balancing, performance profiling, state management and failover and it
runs on Mac OS X, Windows NT, Solaris, HP-UX and Windows 2000.
- Books
- Building
Application Servers (Advances in Object Technology 24) (Cambridge
Univ Press) - "This book offers simple, practical advice for
business programmers on how to create distributed multi-tiered
client/server applications. The author examines the different middleware
options, offering principles and guidelines on how to use these tools to
design and build real-world business software. A wide range of practical
examples using UML is used to explain design." Other: Paperback
(June 2000)
in association with Amazon.com
Web Server
- Peer
Publishing
- The
NetCraft Web Server Survey (NetCraft) - The NetCraft Web
Server Survey is an ongoing monthly survey of Web Server software usage
on Internet connected computers. NetCraft collects and collates as many
hostnames providing an HTTP service as they can find, and systematically
poll each one with an HTTP request for the server name.
- Vendor
Papers
- Reducing
the Cost of Server Ownership (ITtoolbox Web Design) -
Alacritech server accelerator cards based on the company's patented SLIC
(session-layer interface card) offload protocol processing, primarily
TCP/IP, from host software to silicon on the Alacritech adapter. Various
performance tests show that the Alacritech cards can double the
throughput of servers and network-attached storage devices, while
simultaneously improving application performance. Some network-intensive
applications such as backup, file serving, and Web serving see
remarkable improvements, from 20% up to 100%.
- Industry
Articles
- An
Embeddable HTTP Server (Dr. Dobb's Journal ) - In this
article, I'll discuss the construction of an embeddable HTTP server that
not only obviates the need for a filesystem, but also provides support
for dynamic content along with an API to bridge the HTTP server to the
data sources on the device. All that is needed on the target device is a
socket library.
- Open-Source
Web Servers: Performance on a Carrier-Class Linux Platform (Linux
Journal) - The author tests the performance of three open-source web
servers on a typical Ericsson Research Linux cluster platform and
reports his results.
- Start-up
consolidates Web application server security (Computerworld)
- OpenNetwork Technologies' single sign-on and access-management
functions can work across Web applications and business units.
- Total
e-Business Management (EAI Journal) - Application component
management unleashes the full power of an application server, providing
instant notification of a transaction failure, identification of the
root cause of performance problems, and maximized performance of
high-end e-commerce solutions.
- Which
Web Server is Right for Your Intranet? (Intranet Journal) -
Choosing the right web server is one of the most important decisions you
will make when building your intranet. To help you make the right
choice, the author embarks on a series of articles in which he looks at
some of the most popular web server platforms and compares features,
advantages and disadvantages.
- WIRM:
A Perl Based Application Server (CMP Media Inc. ) - Perl is
the language of choice for developing Web applications, serving over 90
percent of the Web's dynamic content. It's surprising, then, that none
of the leading application servers is Perl-based. There are more than
one million Perl programmers out there.
- Software
- Ad
Server Solutions (Ad Server Solutions) - This product is a
comprehensive suite of software applications used for managing rich
media ad delivery, inventory, geographical targeting, revenue
generation, live statistics and real time reporting.
- Benchmark
Factory® (Quest Software Inc.) - This product prevents
unplanned downtime and slow performance by testing a system's limits
before it goes live. Whether users are running an Internet site,
database, e-mail system or file servers, it is a load-testing solution
that scales throughput to virtually unlimited users, helping to discover
the limits of critical environments before go live. It helps users to
plan and budget for capacity, plan for future investments, and ensure
commitment on service level agreements.
- Graphics
Server (Graphics Server Technologies) - This product provides
graphing and charting solutions for Windows and Internet developers. It
can be implemented in either a client-server environment or serve up
browser-independent graphs via the Internet. Graphs and charts are
developed through either the graph/DTC control, the extensive API, or a
combination of both for comprehensiveness. The interactive toolbar lets
users customize and edit graph elements, and save customized graph
elements as templates for reuse with different sets of data. Many graph
types are supported including area, pie, bar, line, pareto, and
time-series. It also supports numerous development languages including
Visual Basic, C++, Delphi, and more.
- HttpRevealer
(HttpRevealer) - This product is a utility for Java servlet
developers and network administrators that reveals the communications
between a web browser and a webserver at the HTTP level. Users see the
HTTP request/response headers. It can help to debug web applications and
web server.
- IDS
Server (IDS Software) - IDS Server enables Java applets,
servlets, applications and HTML based applications access to databases
via the Internet and Intranet.
- Spotlight™
on Web Servers (Quest Software Inc.) - This product lets
users take the pulse of Web servers with one glance. No other diagnostic
tool graphically displays, in real time, the actual server processes and
flow of data in a Web-based environment. It allows users to identify,
diagnose and resolve bottlenecks before they seriously impact the end
user experience.
- Web
Server Query Tool (JResources.com) - This tool is written
completely in Java, and will run in any JDK 1.1 - compliant VM. This
tool confirms the identity of the host by doing a name server lookup. If
successful, it gets the HTTP "Server" header (which is the
name of the Web server software), and displays it to the end user.
- Books
- Administrating
Web Servers, Security and Maintenance (Prentice Hall) -
"Learn from the experts in easy, step-by-step lessons. Every
section includes reviews to help you check your work and assess your
progress at every stage, and practical labs to reinforce what you're
learning as you go along. Topics include: Administrating Web Servers;
Security and Maintenance; Building a new website Networks; Web servers
and Web clients Configuration, as well as maintenance of your site CGI
security Secure online transactions." Other: Textbook Binding - 567
pages 1 edition (December 15, 1999)
in association with Amazon.com
- TCP/IP
Lean: Web Servers for Embedded Systems (2nd Edition) (CMP Books)
- This book is a "hands-on guide to TCP/IP networking, teaching the
reader how to create a standalone TCP/IP stack with an embedded Web
server as well as a host of other tasks." Other: Paperback - 559
pages 2nd edition (April 2002)
in association with Amazon.com
- The
Developer's Guide to the Java Web Server: Building Effective and
Scalable ServerSide Applications (Addison-Wesley Publishing)
- "Explains how to create Web applications by presenting many
proven design and coding techniques and working examples that
demonstrate such tasks as registration, communication with existing Web
services, error reporting, and templating. The accompanying CD-ROM
contains the sample applications and code examples from the text."
Other: Paperback - 577 pages Bk&Cd Rom edition (June 1, 1999)
in association with Amazon.com
- Zope
Developer's Handbook (Sams) - "Zope Developer's Handbook
is a thorough, step-by-step alternative to the scattered online
documentation, including code and ready to use examples. This
interactive approach complements the use of the tool itself, allowing
the reader to quickly create new applications. The book delves quickly
into areas that present the biggest challenges to Zope developers,
including code reuse and integration with other tools, with emphasis on
rapid application development (RAD) techniques and database interfacing,
which are critical for a successful dynamic content site." Other:
Paperback: 600 pages; 1st edition (December 2, 2002)
in association with Amazon.com
Mail server
- Software
- Command
and Control Internet Transport (Reedy Creek Technologies, Inc.)
- This product leverages e-mail processes such as SMTP ("Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol") and MAPI ("Messaging Application
Programming Interface"), to perform a variety of tasks including:
sending commands to remote devices, receiving information from remote
devices, zoned web content management, and embedding web content with
queried information.
- CommuniGate
Pro (Stalker Software, Inc.) - This product is a
carrier-grade, feature-rich Internet Mail server with multi-platform
support. It takes advantage of modern multi-threaded and multi-processor
environments, and includes anti-spam protection, true clustering, admin
via the web, multi-domain support, IMAP4rev1, ESMTP, POP3, WebEmail,
MailList, LDAP, ACAP, SSL, CLI, SASL, SNMP, calendaring, personal web
pages with automated publishing, and more.
- eGain
Mail (eGain Communications Corp.) - This product ensures
customers fast, effective responses to their online inquiries. eGain
Mail is a complete email management solution that offers the
sophisticated workflow, issue tracking, and intelligent response tools
needed to accurately respond to high volumes of e-mail and Web form
inquiries.
- Exchange
2000 Server (Microsoft) - Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server,
seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft Windows® 2000 operating
system, is designed to meet the messaging and collaboration needs for
businesses of all sizes, from small organizations to large distributed
enterprises. Exchange 2000 Server incorporates two years of customer
feedback for its design.
- Internet
Exchange Messaging Server (Internet Messaging Associates) -
This product is a standalone, open architecture mail exchange server
solution that runs on both Linux and Windows platforms. It also include
security features to protect users from viruses and spam. Linux
distributions supported are Redhat Linux, Suse Linux, Mandrake, Caldera
OpenLinux, TurboLinux and VALinux.
- iPlanet
Messaging Server (Sun Microsystems) - This is a software
product that provides a centralized location for the exchange of
information through the sending and receiving of messages.
- JAMES
1.2.1 (Java Apache Project) - The Java Apache Mail Enterprise
Server (a.k.a. Apache James) is a 100% pure Java server designed to be a
complete and portable enterprise mail engine solution based on currently
available open protocols (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP). It requires Java 2
(minimum requirement is the JRE 1.2).
- Lotus
Notes (Lotus Development Corporation) - This is an
integrated, Web-like environment that provides users with quick access
to and management of many types of information including Domino and
Internet-based e-mail, calendar of appointments, personal contacts and
to-dos as well as Web pages, News Groups and intranet applications.
- Messaging
Suite (Openwave Solutions) - Openwave Messaging Suite
provides CSPs a set of IP-based wireless and wireline messaging
applications such as Email, Mobile Instant Messaging, and Multimedia
Messaging Services Center, which increases end-user adoption through the
enabling of new revenue-generating collaboration and communication
services.
- Netscape
Messaging Server (Netscape) - This product delivers email
with embedded sound, graphics, video files, HTML forms, Java applets,
and desktop applications. It can support thousands of users per system
and offer remote connectivity with support for controlled downloads or
slow modem connections, vacation notices and automatic replies,
confirmation of delivered messages, and flexible security.
- Novell
Internet Messaging System (Novell, Inc.) - This product
leverages NDS eDirectory, and provides corporations, Internet Service
Providers (ISPs) and Application Service Providers (ASPs) with an
Internet messaging system for hosting and centrally managing a large
number of user accounts.
- qmail
(qmail) - This is a modern SMTP server which makes sendmail
obsolete. Available as freeware.
- Sendmail
(Sendmail.net) - This is a messaging solution that hosts multiple
domains and scales comfortably to hundreds of thousands of users on a
single server. Available as freeware.
- Teamware
Mail (Teamware) - This is a ready-to-run e-mail service
combining the ease-of-use and global reach of Internet SMTP/MIME e-mail,
access to LDAP/X.500 based directories, with the security, reliability,
and maintainability of an Intranet messaging system.
- TFS
Gateway (TFS Technology) - This product allows for
connectivity between disparate email systems. This system can be used by
organizations with multiple email systems, coexistence or migration
scenarios, those going through Merger & Acquisitions and by
organizations requiring improved gateway functionality over the baseline
functionality that email systems provide. It is a complete solution for
the interoperability problems that exist between disparate email
systems.
- Books
- Developing
LDAP and ADSI Clients for Microsoft Exchange (Addison-Wesley
Publishing) - "The book goes well beyond these basics and
details how native LDAP maps into ADSI objects, methods, and properties.
It walks you step-by-step through the process of writing LDAP and ADSI
clients for Windows and Exchange, using sample applications for each
technology that highlight their similarities and differences. This
resource gives you the experience-based knowledge and software tools you
need to put LDAP to work in a Microsoft environment." Other:
Paperback - 400 pages 1 edition (April 17, 2000)
in association with Amazon.com
- Exchange
2000 Server Black Book: A Guide to Implementing and Supporting
Microsoft's Newest Version of Exchange (The Coriolis Group) -
"This book includes an in-depth series of case studies,
step-by-step procedures and implementation plans including forms and
checklists, to help ensure a successful implementation. It teaches you
how to utilize the new features of Exchange 2000 to enhance reliability,
scalability and performance through easier administration and the
tightest possible integration with Windows 2000 operating system. This
book covers migration issues from Lotus cc:Mail and Notes, MS Mail,
Novell Groupwise, IBM OfficeVision and SNADS." Other: Paperback -
704 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (July 5, 2000)
in association with Amazon.com
- Lotus
Notes R5 Fast and Easy (Prima Publishing) - "This guide
features progressive screenshots that walk through how to accomplish
specific tasks with the Lotus Notes business program for data
organizing, management, and sharing." Other: Paperback - 336 pages
(June 2, 1999)
in association with Amazon.com
- Mastering
Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 (Sybex) - "Get up to
speed with Exchange Server 2000, the newest messaging server designed
for the Windows 2000 Platform. Mastering Exchange Server 2000 is
essential reading for any administrator, consultant, or power user
making the jump to Windows 2000. Covering every aspect of this powerful
messaging and Groupware product, this book was written by an Exchange
authority who actually worked with the Microsoft development team."
Other: Paperback - 976 pages 1st edition (November 2, 2000)
in association with Amazon.com
- Microsoft
Exchange 2000 Server Resource Kit (Microsoft Press) -
"This book/CD-ROM package contains two separate guides: the
Enterprise Deployment Guide and the Resource Guide. The Enterprise
Deployment Guide contains information for deploying Microsoft Exchange
2000 Server in various environments. It explains upgrading earlier
versions of Exchange, migrating to Exchange from other messaging
systems, creating intra-company and inter-company Exchange
organizations, and integrating Exchange with the Active Directory
service. The Resource Guide contains in-depth and advanced technical
information about optimizing Exchange organization, backing up servers,
preventing and recovering from disasters, and designing the Exchange
architecture." Other: Paperback Bk&Cd-Rom edition (September
2000)
in association with Amazon.com
- Sendmail
Desktop Reference (O'Reilly & Associates) - "This
quick-reference guide to the sendmail program provides a complete
overview of the latest version (V8.8) of sendmail, from command line
switches to configuration commands, from options declarations to
macrodefinitions, and from m4 features to debugging switches--all packed
into a convenient portable booklet." Other: Paperback - 74 pages
(May 1997)
in association with Amazon.com
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