BEA Systems, Inc, have announced that Impresse Corporation has delivered PresseWare, the industry`s first Internet-based enterprise digital production solution, based on the BEA WebLogic Server(tm) using the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) component technology.
With PresseWare, Impresse is staking out a new application category, called eProduction, which integrates Internet and supply chain technologies to deliver on-demand manufacturing using digital production. Digital production is the process of converting a digital master product into a manufactured physical form. Impresse relies on BEA WebLogic`s EJB technology for the foundation of this new application`s component-based architecture, making PresseWare one of the industry`s first EJB applications.
Targeted at the printing and publishing market, PresseWare enables on-demand production of print materials. PresseWare enables large organizations and commercial printers to provide their customers with a broad inventory of items and customized products tailored to suit their individual needs, thereby helping to improve customer service, greatly reduce operating costs, and minimize turn-around time. PresseWare is designed to facilitate and streamline on-demand production of printed materials by using the Internet to unify business and production workflows across the entire supply chain.
"Using the state-of-the-art Internet technology, conforming to industry standards, and rapid time-to-market were the key criteria for us in selecting our technology partners," stated Phil Nelson, chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at Impresse. "We realized early on that
EJB technology offered the best component model for our application. The BEA WebLogic product, with its comprehensive implementation of almost all of the enterprise Java standards, including EJB helped make it possible for us to develop and successfully deploy our application quickly across the Web, while leveraging our development resources to focus on adding depth to the application and developing sophisticated user interactions."
"BEA WebLogic`s support of open standards is designed to help provide Impresse and their customers investment protection as their system grows," said Scott Dietzen, chief technology officer at WebXpress, a BEA company. "With BEA WebLogic`s EJB implementation, Impresse is able to rapidly create software components and deploy them across multiple platforms. In addition, the components that they have developed for PresseWare can be re-used in their subsequent eProduction applications helping to save development resources."
PresseWare relies on BEA WebLogic`s EJB technology as the foundation of its component-based architecture to integrate, automate, and Web-enable all stages and functions of the digital print production process across multiple platforms. The PresseWare system makes extensive use of BEA WebLogic`s EJB implementation with EJB on the server and COM wrappers around the client objects. PresseWare interfaces with common ERP systems, popular document management and asset management systems, and a wide variety of customer-specific legacy platforms and applications. Additionally, PresseWare provides a Java-based interactive client application, developed using the BEA WebLogic Server running EJB and RMI services, for factory floor monitoring systems and decision support functions.
The Impresse PresseWare product line is built with a four-tier architecture comprised of traditional RDBMSs, such as Oracle 8i and SQL Server; EJB component application logic modules running on WebLogic Server; user interface scripts developed with Java Server Pages or Microsoft`s Active Server Pages running on a Web server, and finally, clients using DHTML and XML-based standard browsers, such as Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0. PresseWare is currently deployed on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, with connection to Microsoft SQL Server and other databases. In the near future, Impresse expects PresseWare deployments on additional operating systems, such as Sun Solaris.
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BEA Systems, Inc., is a leading provider of cross-platform middleware solutions for enterprise applications. BEA`s products and services enable mission-critical, distributed applications
to work seamlessly in client/server, Internet, and legacy environments. BEA provides transactional, messaging, and distributed object-based software, as well as an industry-leading Java Web application server, for developing and deploying these enterprise applications.
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