User manual BORLAND VISIBROKER 8.0 DATASHEET

[. . . ] data s h e e t Borland® VisiBroker® 8. 0 Comprehensive CORBA® Environment DEVELOP AND DEPLOY DISTRIBUTED, MISSION-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS Borland® VisiBroker® is a complete CORBA® environment for developing, deploying and managing distributed applications. Built on proven and open industry standards and a high-performance architecture, Borland VisiBroker is ideally suited for low latency, complex, data-oriented, transaction-intensive, mission-critical environments. With its sophisticated thread and connection management and efficient implementation of the IIOP® protocol, VisiBroker easily scales to large numbers of clients and servers. [. . . ] Additionally, VisiBroker also enables developers to write . NET applications, written in any . NET language (such as Microsoft® C++, C# and Visual Basic®), that can talk to existing unmodified CORBA applications. WIDEST RANGE OF SUPPORT FOR HARDWARE, OPERATING SYSTEM AND COMPILER Borland VisiBroker recognizes that Systems Architects will already be placed under platform constraints so Visibroker is available for a wide range of platform options. Available platforms are characterized by operating system, processor architecture, C++ compiler and JDK to offer architects unconstrained flexibility for distributed systems. Borland® VisiBroker® 8. 0 key feature highlights SOA-ready -- Borland VisiBroker enables CORBA applications to be exposed as services and easily integrate with applications based on other leading technology stacks including Web Services, . NET, and J2EE. Borland VisiBroker for . NET -- Integrate existing CORBA applications with . NET applications without requiring modifications to the CORBA applications. VisiBroker enables developers to transparently write CORBA applications using a . NET language which can interoperate seamlessly with other CORBA applications written in a different language. Automatic discovery, load balancing, and failover of CORBA objects -- Easy configuration for automated discovery of objects, load balancing, and failover. Borland VisiBroker supports standard CORBA naming service APIs, scalable to large networks of objects. It enables high availability of application objects/servers through object clustering and high availability of the Naming Service itself through replicated naming servers and mirrored database backends. Borland VisiBroker for JavaTM and VisiBroker for C++ -- Leverage the full Java implementation of the CORBA ORB to make CORBA IIOP available wherever Java is available and the readily portable, full C++ implementation with ANSI-compliant C++ interfaces. CORBA® 3. 0 support -- CORBA 3. 0 specification-compliant product features include Portable Interceptors (PI), Portable Object Adapters (POA), Objects-by-Value (OBV), Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII), Dynamic Skeleton Interface (DSI), Interface Repository (IR), Messaging QoS and Internet Inter-ORB protocol (IIOP). RMI-over-IIOP and Java-to-IDL -- Write CORBA applications in Java without having to learn IDLTM and other CORBA features; migrate existing RMI applications to the high-performance Borland VisiBroker runtime environment. Firewall Support -- Borland VisiBroker supports bi-directional GIOP for managing a return path through a firewall and Borland® GateKeeperTM provides a flexible proxy-server for managing HTTP web connections and configuring connections for Firewalls and NATs. Multiplatform availability -- Borland VisiBroker is formally supported on an extensive range of platforms including Windows®, SolarisTM, HP-UX®, AIX® and multiple distributions of Linux®. [. . . ] Please check for latest platform availability information. Borland is the leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions - open to customers' processes, tools and platforms - providing the flexibility to manage, measure and improve the software delivery process. All Borland brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. [. . . ]