Solaris NEO
Solaris NEO
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Solaris NEO 1.0 is a binary compatible extension to the Solaris operating system that allows companies to bring commerce to the Internet by deploying a corporate web of business critical shared services in the form of high-performance, scalable, and robust networked objects. Once deployed, these shared services can be accessed from multiple client platforms throughout the enterprise and the Internet. NEO provides a high-performance, scalable software environment for networked objects that can be quickly and easily modified, extended, and maintained. This ability to respond quickly to change gives companies a competitive advantage in today's fast-paced, global markets.
Solaris NEO provides a robust runtime environment for networked objects with the NEO Network object distribution infrastructure and a set of object application services. In addition, Solaris NEO 1.0 comes bundled with Solstice NEO administration tools for managing networked object applications. The scalable performance offered by SunSoft's advanced multithreading technology and the built-in industrial strength networking capabilities of Solaris supplies the foundation for integrating a heterogenous group of workstations, PCs, and mainframes into a productive, flexible shared system.
Together with SunSoft's WorkShop NEO, a comprehensive set of development tools for building networked object applications, Solaris NEO extends the traditional two-tier client/server model to a far more flexible, manageable multi-tier model, allowing business rules and processes to be shared across the Internet through networked objects.
- • Solaris NEO's universal desktop environment supports side-by-side use of thousands of existing Solaris applications with applications for the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), MS-Windows, and Macintosh®, providing complete desktop integration in a heterogeneous enterprise deployment.
- • NEO Network, an OMG CORBA-compliant networked object infrastructure, includes a high performance Object Request Broker and support for key services that serve as building blocks for networked object applications. It is designed to efficiently scale to very large numbers of objects and computers, and is multithreaded throughout for robust handling of heavy loads. NEO Network supports the OMG Interface Definition Language (IDL), which allows networked objects to interoperate independent of implementation, platform, and location.
- • NEO Services provide a comprehensive shared runtime environment supporting networked object applications. These services automate many core functions that an application developer would otherwise need to write.
- • Bundled Solstice NEO administration tools enable the object network to be managed from any location and provides facilities for dynamic load balancing.
- • Third-party support is available for connectivity with Microsoft Windows desktops through integrating the OLE and CORBA object models. OLE-compliant MS-Windows client applications created with standard development tools can transparently access the NEO networked object system.
- • Third-party products are available for automatic mapping of legacy data stored in industry standard relational databases into OMG-compliant networked objects, eliminating tedious programming and maintenance.
Solaris NEO Features
NEO Network
NEO Services
- • Provides runtime support for networked object applications
- – Workgroup Support enables organization of the network for simplified, transparent sharing of data, objects, and applications
- – Shared Service Finder searches the network for a requested service and establishes communications, allowing dynamic reconfiguration of services
- – Server and Persistent Object Availability support for waking and idling shared network services
- – Data Store Manager provides facilities for persistence state of an object
- – Concurrent Requests support manages multithreading, protecting shared data integrity and avoiding deadlocks
- – Implementation Support for functions that simplify object development including long-lived object references, exception handling, and object tracing
- – Server Management support for interactively querying the state of the systems, networks, servers, and objects
- – Application Installation offers complete support for automated application and object installation and de-installation
Solstice NEO
Universal Desktop
Minimum System Requirements
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Operating System
Memory
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