uCosminexus Application Server Overview

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1.1.1 Role of Application Server

The ever-changing information-based society requires an infrastructure that can flexibly support the market needs for expanding business. To implement such an infrastructure, it is necessary to build a highly extensible information system, and the merits of this information system play a major role in determining the success of a business. Concurrently, business lifecycles are getting shorter in accordance with the speed of social changes. Therefore, it is now an essential requirement of an information system to be able to flexibly support the changes in business and to reuse the existing resources without any wastage.

Application Server realizes a system that satisfies these requirements.

Application Server is a base for an information system having high reliability and expandability that can flexibly respond to the drastic changes in a business environment and business strategies. You can use Application Server to build an execution environment for applications that are compliant with Java EE technology standards, and can efficiently develop and operate the systems with the high flexibility and reliability that are features of Java EE.

The following figure shows an overview of Application Server.

Figure 1-1 Overview of Application Server

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Application Server is a base for executing business based on requests sent online from clients and a platform for executing daily business operations by using batch processing.

In addition to Java, Application Server is also compliant with other business standards such as CORBA. This enables smooth integration with other systems and also the porting from other systems.