Novell exteNd, formerly known as SilverStream, was a web application development suite from

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History

Novell had purchased SilverStream in the summer of 2002. As of November 2003, exteNd was still a "work in progress" according to ''

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Overview

The latest version was 5.2. With the release of Novell Identity Manager 3, the components of the portal services in exteNd were rebranded into the IDM User Application, a component of NetIQ Identity Manager. The ExteNd platform provides a visual environment that simplifies the development and deployment of business solutions that exploit existing systems. Based on

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technology, it contains tools for integration of legacy systems to

Web Service A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...

s with

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...

and

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contains standard-based portlets.

Components

Novell exteNd has four components: * The exteNd Application Server, which extends the SilverStream

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* The exteNd Composer, a run-time engine and development suite * The exteNd Director, which constructs and executes portals and

web applications A web application (or web app) is application software that is created with web technologies and runs via a web browser. Web applications emerged during the late 1990s and allowed for the server to dynamically build a response to the request, ...

* The exteNd Workbench, an IDE which Novell was in the process of merging with the exteNd Director. The tool provides an intuitive GUI for deploying on J2EE.

Integration structure

Integration connectors includes: *

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* IBM 5250 * EDI *

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* SAP *

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* JMS *

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* T27

Uses and recognition

Users of Novell exteNd included Hartford Hospital and Imperial Sugar Company.

References

External links

Novell's product page for exteNd
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