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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=155 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1f364643.gif"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GenerExe Home of XPad crosscompiler tool"><U><B><IMG SRC="22b99940.gif" border=0 width="153" height="148" ALT="GenerExe Home Page" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1ef64643.gif"> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="666" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFFF80 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 27 ><NOBR> <SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="menusrc.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="menudef.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language=JavaScript>drawToolbar();</SCRIPT> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="5" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="569" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 841 WIDTH="551"><div> <B>What is X</B><B>Integrate</B><B>?</B></div> <div> <I>(This product is currently under development...)</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>From XIntegrate's documentation:</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Rapid Development of Distributed Applications</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Integration and sharing of information made easy</I></div> <div> <I>Build distributed applications or integrate existing applications</I></div> <div> <I>NO central message-broker, NO single point of failure</I></div> <div> <I>Built-in redundancy and hot spare technology</I></div> <div> <I>Ranging from desktop applications and internet browser to feature-rich critical process control applications!</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Basics</B></div> <div> The XIntegrate tools allow easy message exchange over a network. All network specific features are taken care of by the tools. You publish information and any local or remote XIntegrate-instance interested in the information can subscibe on it. All you need to do is name each XIntegrate Instance and each message you want to share. Setting up your own applications is easy!</div> <bR> <div> Often this kind of software is referred to as <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Middleware </B></I></FONT>or <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>EAI </B></I></FONT>(Enterprise Application Integration) or <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Message-broker</B></I></FONT> software.</div> <bR> <div> <B>What can you do with XIntegrate?</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Remote Monitoring and control of equipment (i.e. for EGSE or test-systems)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Virtual Prototyping of hybrid hardware/software systems, parts of which are simulated</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Parallel, distributed simulators</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Remote Database access</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Database access over the web in a snap (no CGI scripting etc. Support of Oracle and MySQL)</div> <bR> <div> <B>How do you setup an XIntegrate application?</B></div> <div> There are several ways to setup the XIntegrate modules, ranging from writing simple textual script-files and easy to use libraries you can include your own application. (A task the XIntegrate Designer application can do for you). Currently the following APIs are provided:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Loadable library to be included into your own software</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE); i.e. send message straight from Word or Access databases or from a simple Visual Basic application;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Http: Use a web-browser to access or publish information;</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">SOON</B></I><I>:</I></FONT> an <A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Targets"><U>XPad targe</U></A>t module will be available making it even easier to create members...</div> <bR> <div> <B>Management of the distributed application</B></div> <div> Each XIntegrate application contains one ore more MASTERS, which:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">guards and synchronizes the distributed application, using advanced hot-spare mechanisms;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">provides general services to other (remote) XIntegrate modules; i.e. lookup services</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c811111100.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">sends notifcations of configurable events (i.e. email or SMS to cell-phones when some failure occurs).</div> <div> Futhermore all XIntegrate modules can be individually questioned from any web-browser which has access to your companies network.</div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 280 WIDTH="260"><div> <B>XIntegrate Features</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Many to many communication by publishing information and subscribing on information in a local network;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Easy to setup;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Easy to integrate into your own software;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">It is <I>FAST</I>! </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Highly reliable: the connections are monitored by watchdogs and redundant master and members can be started as (hot) spares, taking over as soon as an instance with the same name failes;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Easy to manage; all members can be questioned with an ordinary browser and Email/SMS-messages can be send to notify you about events.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="290"><div> <B>XIntegrate Tools</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">XIntegrate executables and DLL libraries:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">XIntegrate designer. A tool to design an XIntegrate distributed application graphically, which will generate the scripts for each XIntegrate module;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">XPad XIntegrate target... (routing and transformation of data AND business-logic specification).</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 17 WIDTH="551"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="17" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="551" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 44 WIDTH="551"><div> <B>CHECK BACK SOON FOR A BETA-release announcement!</B></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>