Enterprise Server and Management Console

It is now a programmable, Enterprise Java Bean-compliant Java application server. With the management console you have the type of control over your backend processes previously reserved for high-end, expensive systems like the IBM AS/400. See below for details.

Enterprise Server Management Console

This alleviates your need to buy a tool from one vendor and a server from another then spend most of your development time integrating the two. Web applications are invariably three or more tiers, so it makes sense to use a tool like JDesignerPro which has the client and middle tiers in one system. The complex stuff like Server messaging, user authorization, load balancing, client applet delivery and more are built-in automatically for you.

Process Management

These features form a framework in which you can schedule anything to run on the server at the time you need. It has powerful tracking, logging and restart features that give you control over what happens and saves the process in the event of an application failure. Example uses of the Enterprise Server console:

1. Schedule an end of day inventory reconciliation based on data about product shipped, returned and stored. Once run, have the server send this data to certain executives via e-mail or attached to an e-mail as an MS-Excel file.
2. Check the database every hour for web traffic information and send results via alpha pager to network administrators.
3. Run reports each night over your data while the server is at a minimum load.
4. Have the server execute daily FTP's of data at the time you set.
5. Query your sales lead database every ten minutes for new leads entered on the Web or by a phone operator. Once found, have the server run a database query for which local sales executive matches the lead's location. Then have it e-mail or page the sales executive with the lead information for immediate follow up.

Advanced Interface

The Enterprise Server management console is a complete professional interface for controlling how and why your business processes are executed on the server.

This process management interface saves you and your staff large amounts of time otherwise spent manually reporting, searching and e-mailing other employees with up to date data. There are innumerable uses for the Enterprise Server. It will not only execute jobs at intervals or based on external events, but run jobs immediately upon submittal to a Job Queue.

Even with immediate submittal and execution you gain the benefits of tempered use of the CPU and reduced page swapping associated with overloading the server hardware with too many tasks executed at one time.