Feature Guide

EAServer

Subject

This book describes EAServer, which is an integrated set of application servers that you use to deploy Web applications that support high-volume traffic, dynamic content, and intensive online transaction processing. The EAServer product set consists of PowerDynamo™ (Dynamo), Adaptive Server® Anywhere, Application Integrator for CICS, and Application Integrator for Stored Procedures.

Products described in this manual may not be available on some UNIX platforms. See the Release Bulletin and the Install Guide for a list of products included in your EAServer edition.

Audience

This book is written for new users of EAServer.

How to use this book

The following chapters are included in this book:

Chapter 1, "Introducing EAServer" includes a description of EAServer's features and use.
Chapter 2, "Developing an EAServer Application" explains some of the basic concepts and terminology associated with developing component-based EAServer applications.
Chapter 3, "EAServer Components" discusses developing EJB, Java, C/C++, and ActiveX components that run on EAServer.
Chapter 4, "Web Applications" describes the components of Web applications.
Chapter 5, "Using PowerDynamo with EAServer" discusses calling methods in EAServer components from PowerDynamo templates and scripts.
Chapter 6, "Using Application Integrator with EAServer" discusses how to use Application Integrator to create CICS and stored procedure components and deploy them on EAServer.
Chapter 7, "Using Adaptive Server Anywhere with EAServer" describes how to build Adaptive Server Anywhere databases and connect them to EAServer.
Chapter 8, "Using Message Bridge for Java with EAServer" describes how Message Bridge is used to build applications that make use of structured messages, such as XML documents or messages exchanged between enterprise systems or business partners through New Era adapters, using EAServer components.
Chapter 9, "Using Web Services Toolkit with EAServer" describes how to use the Web Services Toolkit to provide remote clients of EAServer easy access to EAServer components, across firewalls.

Related documents

Core EAServer documentation The core EAServer documents are available in HTML format in your EAServer software installation, and in PDF and DynaText format on the EAServer 4.1.1 Technical Library CD.

The EAServer Installation Guide for your platform explains how to install the EAServer software.

What's New in EAServer 4.1.1 summarizes new functionality in this version.

The EAServer Programmer's Guide explains how to:

Create, deploy, and configure components and component-based applications
Create, deploy, and configure Web applications, Java servlets, and JavaServer Pages
Use the industry-standard CORBA and Java APIs supported by EAServer

The EAServer System Administration Guide explains how to:

Start the preconfigured Jaguar server and manage it with the Jaguar Manager plug-in for Sybase Central™
Create, configure, and start new application servers
Define connection caches
Create clusters of application servers to host load-balanced and highly available components and Web applications
Monitor servers and application components
Automate administration and monitoring tasks with command-line tools or the Repository API
Create embedded EAServer installations

The EAServer Security Administration and Programming Guide explains how to:

Understand the EAServer security architecture
Configure role-based security for components and Web applications
Configure SSL certificate-based security for client connections using the Security Manager plug-in for Sybase Central
Implement custom security services for authentication, authorization, and role membership evaluation
Implement secure HTTP and IIOP client applications
Deploy client applications that connect through Internet proxies and firewalls

The EAServer Cookbook contains tutorials and explains how to use the sample applications included with your EAServer software.

The EAServer API Reference Manual contains reference pages for proprietary EAServer Java classes, ActiveX interfaces, and C routines. This document is available only online.

Message Bridge for Java™ documents Message Bridge for Java simplifies the parsing and formatting of structured documents in Java applications. Message Bridge allows you to define structures in XML or other formats, and generates Java classes to parse and build documents and messages that follow the format. The Message Bridge for Java User's Guide describes how to use the Message Bridge tools and runtime APIs. This document is included in PDF and DynaText format on your EAServer 4.1.1 Technical Library CD.

Web Services Toolkit documents Web Services Toolkit allows you to use standard Web services protocols in EAServer, such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and Uniform Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI). The toolkit includes components for runtime support of these protocols, and tools for WSDL document creation, UDDI registration, and SOAP management. The Web Services Toolkit User's Guide describes how to use these features. This document is included in PDF and DynaText format on your EAServer 4.1.1 Technical Library CD.

Localization feature documents EAServer includes optional components to simplify the creation and deployment of localized applications. Documents for these features are provided in PDF and DynaText format on your EAServer 4.1.1 Technical Library CD. These features and documents include:

The Global Sort component, which provides high performance sorting of small to medium length lists and supports multiple alphabets and sort orders. This feature is documented in Using Global Sort.

The locale formatting library (LFL) consists of C++ CORBA components that use the International Components for Unicode (ICU) C++ formatting APIs for formatting dates, times, numbers, and currency. Using the Locale Formatting Library describes how to use these components in your applications.
The XML conversion module (XCM) tool is a high-performance EAServer component development tool that provides encoding verification and character set conversion for XML data. Using the XCM Tool describes how to use this feature.

PowerDynamo documents PowerDynamo documents are available in PDF and DynaText format on the EAServer 4.1.1 Technical Library CD and in HTML format in the PowerDynamo software installation.

Application Integrator documents Application Integrator documents are available in HTML format in your EAServer software installation, and in DynaText and PDF format on the EAServer 4.1.1 Technical Library CD.

Adaptive Server Anywhere documents EAServer includes a limited-license version of Adaptive Server Anywhere 7.0. PowerDynamo requires Adaptive Server Anywhere, as do many of the samples included with your EAServer software. Adaptive Server Anywhere documents are available on the EAServer 4.1.1 Technical Library CD.

jConnect for JDBC documents EAServer includes the jConnect™ for JDBC™ driver to allow JDBC access to Sybase database servers and gateways. The jConnect for JDBC Programmer's Guide is included on the EAServer 4.1.1 Technical Library CD.

Conventions

The formatting conventions used in this manual are:

Formatting example	To indicate
commands and methods	When used in descriptive text, this font indicates keywords such as: Command names used in descriptive text C++ and Java method or class names used in descriptive text Java package names used in descriptive text
variable, package, or component	Italic font indicates: Program variables, such as myCounter Parts of input text that must be substituted, for example: Server.log File names Names of components, EAServer packages, and other entities that are registered in the EAServer naming service
File \| Save	Menu names and menu items are displayed in plain text. The vertical bar shows you how to navigate menu selections. For example, File \| Save indicates "select Save from the File menu."
`package 1`	Monospace font indicates: Information that you enter in Jaguar Manager, a command line, or as program text Example program fragments Example output fragments

Other sources of information

Use the Sybase Technical Library CD and the Technical Library Product Manuals Web site to learn more about your product:

Technical Library CD contains product manuals and is included with your software. The DynaText browser (downloadable from Product Manuals ) allows you to access technical information about your product in an easy-to-use format.

Refer to the Technical Library Installation Guide in your documentation package for instructions on installing and starting the Technical Library.
Technical Library Product Manuals Web site is an HTML version of the Technical Library CD that you can access using a standard Web browser. In addition to product manuals, you will find links to the Technical Documents Web site (formerly known as Tech Info Library), the Solved Cases page, and Sybase/Powersoft newsgroups.

To access the Technical Library Product Manuals Web site, go to Product Manuals .

Sybase certifications on the Web

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If you need help

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