I am interested in the beta program. We are going to be implementing a distributed
unix account management system in a university environment. Has the pricing of the
product been determined? What will the pricing be for universities?
Thanks,
-Scott Metzger
Media Application Services
Cal Poly State University
805-756-7038
Andreas Vogel wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Ed Roman wrote:
>
> > I've been developing a CORBA client example for my EJB book, and
> > unfortunately I'm at a standstill. I'm looking for an EJB server that
> > supports CORBA clients connecting to enterprise beans in a relatively
> > portable way. The EJB servers I've looked at so far either do not support
> > CORBA clients, or have proprietary 'helper methods' you need to call that
> > make your client code not portable.
>
> Inprise's EJB server does? It's in early access release since January. Let me
> know if you want to be on the beta program. That can be done quickly.
>
> > Are there any vendors out there that supports relatively portable
> > client-side CORBA APIs?
>
> Since EJB sits on top of Visibroker 4 you have native CORBA support including:
> (RMI over) IIOP, JNDI over CosNaming, JTS/OTS.
>
> > Ideally I'd like a server that will let me:
> >
> > - Use Java as a client language
>
> you can even write C++ clients :-((
>
> > - Call enterprise beans using portable CORBA APIs
>
> yes.
>
> > - Use IIOP as the transport protocol
>
> yes.
>
> > - Perform Bean lookups via CosNaming
>
> yes.
>
> > - Perform Transactions via JTS/OTS
>
> yes.
>
> > I'm also looking for a good database that I can ship an eval copy of with my
> > book. The database needs to have an available JDBC driver that supports all
> > transaction isolation levels. The ones I've been playing with for the last
> > few months are either not functional enough (cloudscape, MS access), too
> > huge/tough to install for a book CD-ROM (oracle), or politically unsound (MS
> > sql server:)
>
> Interbase would be a possibility, it's fairly lightweight and has decent JDBC
> driver.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas
>
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