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A Little Logging and Archiving We had no difficulty in setting up the logging feature, though it quickly became apparent that both logging and archiving are minimally implemented. The new archiving feature requires MS SQL Server and MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing). The capabilities are a far cry from the reporting and auditing features available in […]

Borland AppSever is Borland’s latest foray into the application server market. AppServer is the “deploy” component of Borland’s JBuilder Enterprise suite, a three-component Internet application system. The other two components are JBuilder (“Develop”) and AppCenter (“Manage”). Borland’s reason for the integration is that by making AppServer part of the JBuilder software in the Enterprise edition, […]

The Internet, and more specifically the World Wide Web portion of the Internet, has been very much at the forefront during the past few years. Web sites may have started out as hand-coded HTML pages interpreted by very simple document viewers, but the advent of larger Web sites with more information spawned the need to […]

What is the most frequently used type of application on the Internet? Electronic mail. And what’s the hardest medium for conducting electronic commerce? Electronic mail. This apparent conundrum has not gone unnoticed in the application- or e-mail-server worlds. However, the typical response has been to graft e-mail onto an existing Web-based commerce solution, such as […]

Pervasive Software was one of the first companies to offer an integrated development environment for its application server. Even in the face of competition from heavyweights like IBM, Netscape, and Oracle, subsequent versions of Tango have managed to not only compete but also remain among the best. The current version of Tango 2000 Application Server […]

HP-Bluestone’s Total-e-Server release 7.2.2 (formerly Bluestone Sapphire server) maintains the company’s leadership position in enterprise-level application servers. Bluestone Software, recently acquired by Hewlett Packard, was a pioneer in this field. This version, and the recently released 7.3, has been adapted to Sun Microsystems’ J2EE standards to serve any compliant application — from Web sites to […]

No application server on the market supports Java better than BEA Systems’ WebLogic Server. With advanced support for Java Server Pages (JSP), Java Messaging Services, in-memory servlets session-state management, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB; both session and entity beans), and new clustering technology, BEA Systems’ WebLogic application server is a leader in the application server space. It […]

WebObjects pioneered the application-server market, and it’s still a good choice for most situations calling for a medium-sized Web site where development time is at a premium and you’re not expecting to serve 100,000 transactions an hour. In fact, WebObjects may offer the best development environment in the application-server world, with a crystal-clear drag-and-drop interface […]

The Crescendo line of products makes it possible for users to listen to background MIDI music while browsing Web sites. Any Web site can add its own MIDI music by using the embed HTML tag, but only Crescendo makes it possible to stream MIDI music over the Web. Streaming refers to the ability to listen […]

The Liquid Music System is advertised as being the first Internet client/server system designed solely for CD-quality audio and marketed to online music publishers. The audio system is built around three components — Liquid Music Player (for playing files), Liquifier Pro (for mastering and encoding), and Liquid Music Server (for serving). Because the Liquid Music […]

Media Player is the latest universal media player released by Microsoft and is designed to receive and playback streaming audio and video media over the Internet or your private intranet. The player serves as the successor to the standard media player in Windows 3.x/95/NT and will be a critical component of the upcoming releases of […]

Netscape Media Server and Player work together to deliver standards-based real-time audio content on the Web. Netscape Media audio can be synchronized with HTML documents, plug-ins, Java applets, and JavaScript for an enriched dynamic multimedia Web experience. Using automatic bandwidth-optimized streaming and support for the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), the Media Player delivers scalable […]