EAServer 6.3 includes these new features:
Lomboz in Eclipse plug-in – Lomboz enables a complete development cycle for J2EE developers: coding, deploying, testing, and debugging. See “Creating EAServer as an application server in Lomboz”.
Binary large objects (BLOBs) message in the EAServer message service – a new BLOB message API allows BLOBs to be sent by way of an out-of-band transport mechanism. Possible out-of-band mechanisms include HTTP, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Session Control Protocol (SCP), or some other point-to-point protocol. See “Setting up BLOB messages”.
Support SQL Server Native Client for EAServer –
You can connect to SQL Server databases using JDBC, ODBC, or the SQL Server Native Client (SNC). EAServer does not include JDBC or ODBC drivers for Oracle, or the SNC libraries. EAServer provides dedicated support for the SQL Server proprietary C interface, SNC version 9. SNC connections that are cached by EAServer are used like any other SNC connection, except that EAServer opens the connection for you.
You can create SQL Server data sources that use ODBC or JDBC as for any other ODBC or JDBC data source. See “Other databases” in Chapter 4, “Database Access” in the EAServer 6.0 System Administration Guide.
