U2 Web Development Environment

Highlights

• Provides object-oriented view of U2 data server and business logic
• Delivers highly robust and scalable on demand infrastructure through connection pooling and load balancing
• Provides graphical tools for defining, testing, and debugging IBM RedBack® Objects (RBOs) and designing Web pages with IBM UniVerse® and IBM UniData® (U2) data bindings
• Converts IBM SB+™ processes and screens to Web pages
• Previously named IBM® RedBack™

Features

• Provides a robust, highly scaleable, secure, efficient infrastructure for Web deployment of U2 applications and data
• Creates an object interface to U2 data and proven business logic
• Delivers highly robust and scalable On Demand infrastructure through Webshares and load balancing
• Performs as a server capable of receiving, processing, and responding to XML/SOAP requests
• Supports stateless and stateful objects
• Supports industry standard interfaces to U2 applications including HTTP, .NET, Java, XML, and SOAP
• Supports selection of one or more technology solutions through an open front-end user development framework
• Configures the number of required U2 data server sessions -  increasing or decreasing them automatically - based upon traffic volume
• Converts IBM SB+ GUI screens and processes for Web access
• Includes an integrated Eclipse-based Object Designer, U2 Web Designer
  1. Provides a feature-rich environment for creating and modifying Web pages that use RedBack Objects to access U2 data and business logic as previously provided in RedBack Designer
  2. Debugs and tests RedBack Objects as previously provided in RBO Scope
  3. Converts IBM SB+ GUI screens and processes for Web access

Benefits

• Delivers On Demand applications
• Provides a time-saving, accurate facility that automatically documents objects, their method and property characteristics, and interrelationships
• Provides abstracted interface independent of the front-end or client supporting a - develop once, deploy many - model
• Enables scalability that is capable of supporting millions of data server hits per day (depending on application design, function, and chosen architecture)
• Preserves existing business logic including investment in U2 applications
• Provides an Open Development Framework
• Provides a seamless, native interface to existing applications