Developer Suite for NetWare

Need NetWare support for your applications ?

With over 50 million users connected to NetWare servers across the world, the need to link network information with applications to achieve a specific result certainly exists. From small business LANs to large corporate WANs, network administrators and programmers are tasked with making the network transparent to the end-user while maximizing total system potential.

From Bindery Services to Novell Directory Services, NetWare has to be one of the most widely under-utilized network operating systems on the planet. It has a tremendous amount of functionality and built-in information which could be exposed and used in a number of applications and utilities to benefit end-users and network administrators. However, knowing exactly what information is available and how to get to it can be a daunting task at best. To help the programmer, Novell publishes a NetWare 'C' SKD (software development kit) library. The SDK contains several on-line references and 'C' API prototypes to virtually every NetWare function available - over 1000 function calls!

While the Novell SDK is very useful for advanced 'C' programmers, Delphi and Visual Basic programmers were without tools sets to create NetWare enabled applications.

Addressing the Delphi and Visual Basic market, Apiary created the Developer Suite for NetWare. The Suite is an extension of Novell's 'C' SDK with functions and on-line help geared for the VB and Delphi programmer. In addition, the Suite contains a set of ActiveX Controls to help simplify common NetWare development in support containers, Access, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and more.

Potential NetWare application enhancements using Apiary's Suite :

• Log-in/log-out
• Add or remove users/groups
• Managing print queues and printers
• Change/reset passwords
• Intruder detection
• Security
• Determine network addresses
• Drive mapping
• Schema modifications
• Volume restrictions
• User space limits and more

Applications in action by Apiary customers :

• Corporate Help Desk - added the ability to reset intruder detection and passwords for users via the centralized Help Desk rather than contacting network administrators or using NWAdmin utility.
• Dynamic work groups - created a program to change users and groups based on flexible manufacturing practices.
• Printer Management - route printer output to a specific queue/printer based on volume and proximity, then reply to the user the location of printed output.
• Drive mapping - utilized NetWare's drive mapping feature to simplify directory hierarchy on a per application basis.
• Schema - created extensions to the directory database for the use of additional user information; e.g. photographs, parking slots, etc.

NetWare is a great networking environment. Apiary's Developer Suite for NetWare helps broaden NetWare's reach to popular RAD environments. By doing so, the Suite can help lower the cost of network ownership while enhancing its functionality