GemStone/S

GemStone/S is the state-of-the-art platform for developing, deploying, and managing scalable, high-performance, multi-tier applications based on business objects. GemStone/S provides the flexible distribution of processing, security, and robustness your enterprise needs for a business-critical, run-time environment. GemStone/S supports high-availability online environments that demand 24×7 operation. GemStone/S is based on Smalltalk — a mature, industry-standard language. GemStone/S uses the same object model as Smalltalk, enabling seamless integration with existing Smalltalk applications. GemStone/S provides the unmatched flexibility and power demanded by business-critical applications. GemStone/S lets users model information in structures as simple as the data permits, and no more complex than the data demands. Represent data objects in tables, hierarchies, networks, queues, or any other structure that is appropriate. Each of these objects may also be indexable. Complex data structures can be built by nesting objects of various formats. GemStone defines a set of privileges for controlling the use of certain system services. Privileges determine whether the user is allowed to execute certain system functions usually only performed by the system administrator. It can support large-scale deployments on multiple machines in a variety of network configurations. It can support large-scale deployments on multiple machines in a variety of network configurations. GemStone applications can access objects and run their methods from a number of languages, including Smalltalk, C, C++, or any language that makes C calls (such as COBOL or Fortran). Objects created from any of these languages are interoperable with objects created from the other languages, and can run their methods within GemStone/S.