Feature Guide

Enterprise Application Server

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Subject

This book describes Enterprise Application Server (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 (OLTP). EAServer consists of Jaguar Component Transaction Server (Jaguar CTS™), PowerJ®, PowerDynamo™, Adaptive Server® Anywhere, and Application Integrator.

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Audience

This book is written for people who want an overview of how EAServer works.

How to use this book

The following chapters and appendix are included in this book:

• Chapter 1, "About Enterprise Application Server", gives an overview of Enterprise Application Server, including a description of its features and use.
• Chapter 2, "Database Terms and Concepts", gives an introduction to basic database concepts.
• Chapter 3, "Introduction to PowerDynamo", gives an overview of how databases, Web applications, and PowerDynamo work together.
• Chapter 4, "Using PowerDynamo with Jaguar", gives an overview of how to call methods in Jaguar components from PowerDynamo templates and scripts.
• Chapter 5, "Using Application Integrator with Jaguar", gives an overview of how to use Application Integrator to create CICS and stored procedure components and deploy them on a Jaguar server.
• Chapter 6, "Using Adaptive Server Anywhere with Jaguar", gives an overview of how to build Adaptive Server Anywhere databases and connect them to a Jaguar server.
• Chapter 7, "Developing Applications with PowerJ and EAServer", gives an overview of how to build PowerJ applications that work with EAServer.
• Appendix A, "New Features in EAServer Version 3.6.1" describes the features added this release.
• Appendix B, "New Features in EAServer Version 3.6" describes the features added in version 3.6.

Related documents

For more information about EAServer, see:

• EAServer Installation Guide for your platform. This book contains installation instructions.
• EAServer Troubleshooting Guide This book contains information about troubleshooting common problems.

For more information about PowerDynamo, see:

• PowerDynamo User's Guide This book contains information on developing and managing your Web application as well as reference information.
• PowerDynamo Reference This book contains reference information for PowerDynamo tags and the DynaScript scripting language.

For more information about Application Integrator, see:

• Application Integrator for CICS Reference This book contains information on developing and deploying your Application Integrator CICS components as well as reference information.
• Application Integrator for Stored Procedures Reference This book contains information on developing and deploying your Application Integrator stored procedure components as well as reference information.

For more information about how to install and use Jaguar to develop OLTP applications and manage your Jaguar server, see:

• What's New in Jaguar CTS This HTML-only book summarizes the new features in the release.
• Jaguar CTS Getting Started This book contains an introduction to Jaguar CTS and tutorials on how to develop clients and components for Jaguar CTS.
• Jaguar CTS System Administration Guide This book explains how to manage Jaguar servers and system security.
• Jaguar CTS Programmer's Guide This book contains information about how to build distributed applications that run on Jaguar CTS.
• Jaguar CTS API Reference This book contains reference pages for Jaguar's Java classes, ActiveX interfaces, and C routines.

For information about Adaptive Server Anywhere, see:

• Adaptive Server Anywhere New Features and Upgrading The book contains information about the new features for and upgrading to the current version of Adaptive Server Anywhere.
• Adaptive Server Anywhere User's Guide This book contains introductory and advanced information for working with Adaptive Server Anywhere.
• Adaptive Server Anywhere Reference Manual This book contains administration and reference information for Adaptive Server Anywhere.
• Adaptive Server Anywhere Programming Interfaces This book contains information about Adaptive Server Anywhere's application programming interface to write programs that directly access the ODBC, Embedded SQL™, or Open Client™ interfaces.
• Adaptive Server Anywhere Data Replication with SQL Remote This book contains information about the SQL Remote™ replication system.
• Adaptive Server Anywhere Quick Reference This handy printed booklet contains complete SQL syntax and other key reference material in a concise format.

For more information about how to use PowerJ to develop Java applets and applications, see:

• Getting Started This book contains information about PowerJ basics, how to write simple programs, and tutorials on specific programming topics.
• Programmer's Guide This book contains information about how to use PowerJ to perform common and advanced programming tasks.
• PowerJ Component Library Reference This book contains full details on every class in the PowerJ component library including the standard Java library that is provided with PowerJ. Separate versions of this reference are included for the different versions of Java: the 1.0.2 release and the 1.1 release of Java.
• DataWindow Programmer's Guide This book provides information about using DataWindow® technology in client/server, distributed, and Web applications. It describes how to define DataWindow objects appropriate for your application and how to write code that interacts with those DataWindow objects.
• DataWindow Reference This book provides reference information for the DataWindow object. It lists the DataWindow functions and properties and includes the syntax for accessing properties and data.
• DataWindow Builder User's Guide This book contains information about creating DataWindow objects for use with the HTML DataWindow design-time control using DataWindow Builder.

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Conventions

Throughout the rest of this manual:

• Jaguar refers to Jaguar Component Transaction Server.
• Dynamo refers to PowerDynamo.
• EAServer refers to Enterprise Application Server.

The syntax conventions used in this manual are:

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