Product

Operating platforms

Web development support and integration

Back-end legacy systems integration

Native database client integration

Protocols and standards

Directories integration

Content management

Security

Supports state and session management

Fault tolerance

Offers load balancing/dynamic failover

Offers caching

Price

Allaire

(888) 939-2545

www.allaire.com

JRun Server 3.0

Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Solaris, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, IBM AIX, SGI Irix, Compaq Tru64 Unix 4.0

Supports all J2EE APIs, including JSP/servlets, EJB, JTA, JMS, includes JRun tag library for database queries, XML processing, e-mail, interactions with EJBs, integration with JRun Studio, supports third-party IDEs

Relational databases, JMS messaging middleware, XML-based middleware, third-party EAI middleware

Any via JDBC-compliant driver

JMS, SMTP, FTP, WDDX

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Workflow, personalization and publishing are available separately

User and role-based security can be applied and stored in configuration files or external databases and directories

x

Provides HTTP clustering and load balancing, automatic redirect and auto restart from failed servers

x

$795 and $4,995 per CPU

Allaire

(888) 939-2545

www.allaire.com

ColdFusion 4.5

Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux

Supports XML, JSP, COM, CORBA

SAP R/3 via ColdFusion extensions with a BackSoft connector; ASAP, CICS and PeopleSoft via ColdFusion extensions

Oracle, DB2, Sybase, any ODBC-compliant driver

FTP, LDAP

iPlanet directory server

Secure remote across intranets/extranets, developer accounts using NOS authentication for accessing files/databases over HTTP, authentication and access control within applications

x

Built-in clustering in Enterprise version only

x

$1,295 and $4,995 per server, $495 per server for Studio 4.5

Art Technology Group

(617) 386-1000

www.atg.com

Dynamo 5

Windows NT/2000, Solaris, HP-UIX, IBM AIX

J2EE implementation, works with standard Java development environments, supports XML, JSP, EJB, CORBA

SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, CICS, MQSeries, others through Active Software ActiveWorks, and Java API's

Oracle, MS-SQL Server, Informix, Sybase

HTTP, HTTPS, IIOP, LDAP, JMS, FTP, SNMP, SMTP, TCP/IP

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Content personalization, integrates with Interwoven, Documentum, OpenText, others

J2EE security, Secure Sockets Layer including access control lists, role-based authorization and athuentication

x

Load balancing based on real load with automatic overload detection, monitors for low free memory conditions with email alerts, monitors application latency, session failover with redirection to a different server cluster, preserves session-state across f

x

$15,000 per CPU for deployment license

BEA Systems

(800) 932-5644

www.bea.com

WebLogic Server 5.1

Windows NT/2000, Solaris, HP-UX, Compaq Tru64, SCO Unixware, Siemens MIPS with Reliant Unix, SGI Irix, Dynx, AIX, Linux, AS 400, OS/390

J2EE implementation with certified APIs, native HTML support, integrated HTML, JSP, EJB, O/R mapping development tools, integrates with Macromedia Dreamweaver, Visual Age for Java, Inprise Jbuilder, supports XML, COM, CORBA

More than 30 packaged plug-ins including SAP, Clarify, other mainframe, XML and MQSeries, adaptor developers kit for custom application integration

Oracle, MS-SQL Server, Informix, Sybase, any via JDBC-compliant driver

JMS (API+ SMTP), FTP, TCP/IP, POP, IMAP, SNMP

ADS, Netscape Directory

Workflow and personalization product plus native integration with Documentum, Interwoven and other content managers

Basic authentication, digital certificates, Secure Sockets Layer authentication, 128-bit encryption, access control lists

x

Clustering for scalability and high availability, Web and EJB level clustering to maintain session-state, data and business logic, in-memory replication,auto-detection and auto-failover

x

$10,000 per CPU

Bluestone Software

(610) 915-5000

www.bluestone.com

Total-e-Server 7.1

Windows 95/98/NT/2000, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, SGI-Irix

Open development environment, supports any third-party Java development tool, provides a J2EE-development tool for creating and mapping EJBs, optional Visual XML tool for creating XML documents, supports COM, CORBA

SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, CICS, MQSeries

Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, SQL Server

HTTP, FTP, SMTP, JMS, WML, SSL, broadcast messaging, multicast messaging

Personalization, workflow, integrates with Interwoven

Security console for role-based authorization and access control lists on JSP's, EJB security manager, Secure Sockets Layer, S-HTTP, auto-message encryption, X.509 certificate management, LDAP authentication

x

Dynamically distributes user requests to optimal location, persistent state server and application restart features

x

$30,000 per CPU

Compuware

(248) 737-7300

www.compuware.com

Uniface 7.2.06

Windows 95/98/NT/2000, OS/390, AS/400, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Red Hat Linux

Provides Java classes, supports CORBA through Visibroker, COM support, Dreamweaver bundled for Web development, e-commerce options, supports XML, JSP, EJB, ASP

SAP R/3, MQSeries, IBM CICS, COBOL, BEA Tuxedo, IBM IMS/DC

DB2, IMS, Informix, Ingres, SQLServer, Oracle, RdB, Sybase,VSAM, ADABAS, SOLID

SMTP, POP, LDAP, RMI/IIOP, XML, CORBA, HTTP, ISAPI, NSAPI, TCP/IP

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Supports encryption, user authentication, digital signatures and encryption via Secure Sockets Layers

x

Supports server failover, automatically redirects component or data requests to alternative servers

x

$30,000 per CPU for Web deployment environment, $20,000 base server engine, $10,000 for Web option

Ganjo

(718) 568-3627

www.ganjo.com

Application Server 2.0.1

Windows NT, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux

Applications facilitated through the use of any HTML editor, supports XML, JSP, EJB

Any via JDBC-compliant driver

SMTP, FTP, HTTP

Netscape Directory

Authentication support only through the Web server

x

Built-in clustering and load balancing

x

Free (open source as of 10/1/00)

GemStone Systems

(800) 243-9369

www.gemstone.com

GemStone/J 4.1

Windows NT, Solaris

Standard Java APIs, CORBA, XML, JSP, EJB, supports all Java IDEs, business component integration with Evergreen Internet Ecential, Diamelle Technologies components

MQSeries, CICS, others, via Java utilities

Any via JDBC or ODBC-compliant driver

XML, JMS, SSL, HTTP, HTTPS

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Workflow, personalization

Supports pluggable PKI and Secure Sockets Layer, interfaces to Entrust/PKI for authorization, Phaos Secure Sockets Layerava for Secure Sockets Layer

x

Self-monitoring, process restart, automatic failover, high availability with clustering

x

$5,000 to $40,000 per CPU, $75,000 per CPU for full workflow

HAHT Commerce

(888) 438-4248

www.haht.com

HAHTsite 5.0

Windows NT/2000, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX

Supports open standards XML, WML, HDML, HTML, Java, Visual Basic, COM, CORBA, provides a WYSIWYG Web development environment

SAP, CICS, MQSeries, JDE OneWorld, PeopleSoft, BEA Tuxedo

Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, Sybase

HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, JMS, IIOP

NDS, ADS, any LDAP-compliant directory

Workflow, content management, personalization, customer relationship management, ERP, data analysis

Supports triple-DES encryption, auditing, logging, user authentication, directs requests to servers within firewalls

x

Server-level failover, session level failover, phased shutdown of application servers, auto-restart/auto-detection, SNMP traps, server recycling

x

$25,000 per CPU

IBM

(800) 426-2255

www.ibm.com

WebSphere Application Server 3.5

Windows NT/2000, AIX/6000, Solaris, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, IBM OS/400, IBM OS/390, IBM OS/2

Supports third-party IDEs, integration with IBM VisualAge for Java and IBM WebSphere Studio IDEs, support for Java and non-Java applications, XML, JSP, EJB, COM, CORBA

IBM DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, SQL Server, Lotus Domino, others, via JDBC, Versant EnJin, eXcelon, IMS, MQ-enabled Systems, MQSeries, CICS, TXSeries/Encina, SAP R/3

Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Informix, Sybase,Versant, eXcelon, Lotus Domino

SMTP, FTP, LDAP, Telnet, TN3270, TN5250, TCP/IP, JMS, JDBC, JTS, JTA, JNI, XML/XLS, EJB, JNDI, J-IDL, CORBA, RMI, IIOP, RMI/IIOP

IBM Directory, Lotus Domino, Netscape Directory, NDS

Workflow, personalization, rules-based engines, proxy, caching, serving, portal serving

Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 authentication, 128-bit encryption, access control lists, application execution policy management, security token generation and passing across a cluster of WebSphere servers, directs requests to servers within firewalls

x

Clustering, cloning support includes server failover and session-state automatic recovery, provides server-level failover support across multiple clusters and servers

x

$750, $7,500 and $35,000 per CPU

IONA Technologies

(781) 902-8000

www.iona.com

iPortal Application Server 1.1.1

Windows NT, Solaris

Supports Visual Cafe, Visual Age for Java, JBuilder, Forte for Java, KAWA, Together/J IDEs, automatic EJB jar files and associated EJB 1.1 XML descriptors, provides EJB GUI, integrates with InLine to import Rational Rose data, supports COM, CORBA

CORBA-based applications, OS/390 with PL/1, COBOL language mapping, CICS/IMS adaptors, AS/400 applications, CORBA Windows objects, Unix versions, main frame hosts, MS COM components, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Vantive, BAAN, others

Oracle 7/8i, SQL Server 6/7, UDB 5.2/6.1, Sybase

JMS, RMI/IIOP, IIIOP, HTTP, SMTP, XML, WML, XSL, SOAP, ICE

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Workflow, content management, distributed authoring, personalization, document management, supply chain management, customer relationship management requires optional iPortal Server

Supports EJB 1.1 security including authentication, authorization, encryption, supports the Java transaction API and Java Transaction Service

x

Supports active database connection management, failure of a database connection is handled by the JDBC drivers to roll back current transaction, transactional failure can be transmitted to other resources or the client, provides load balancing and dynami

x

$10,000 per CPU for deployment license, $1,495 for developer license

iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions

(888) 786-8111

www.iplanet.com

iPlanet Application Server 6.0

Windows NT, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX

Includes an integrated J2EE development tool, O/R mapping, integrates with Sun Forte for Java tools and third-party IDEs including WebGain VisualCafe, supports XML, JSP, EJB, Servlets, COM, CORBA

CICS, SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, Tuxedo, MQSeries, Sun JMQ, includes an SDK for developing Enterprise Connectors for other Enterprise Information Systems

Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase, SQL Server

JMS, JNDI, XML, RMI, IIOP, RMI/IIOP, JTA, JTS, JDBC, LDAP, NSAPI, ISAPI, SMTP, SNMP, HTTP, XML, JNDI, FTP, TCP/IP, EDI

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Native J2EE Workflow development tool and runtime, personalization, content management

Supports role-based, certificate, user, form-based authentication, secure Web server communication, supports HTTPS and HTTP challenge-response authentication between browsers and data sources, authorized user access

x

Provides load balancing and dynamic failover, server enables the distribution of all or part of an application across multiple servers, automatic application restarting, maintains and replicates distributed user-session and distributed application state i

x

$1,495 per CPU for server supporting Servlet/JSPs, $35,000 per CPU with EJB support

Lotus Development

(800) 575-6887

www.lotus.com

Application Server R5.04

Windows NT/2000, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Solaris

Java and COM class libraries API, lower-level APIs for C and C++, supports JavaScript, standard servlet support, Domino Designer RAD tool, supports third-party IDEs for Java and COM development, supports third-party HTML authoring tools, CORBA

CICS, Infinium, J. D. Edwards, Lawson, MQSeries, Oracle Application Server, PeopleSoft, SAP R/3, SSA

Lotus Notes, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, EDA/SQL, any via ODBC, JDBCcompliant driver

SMTP, S/MIME, NNTP, POP3, IMAP, Notes

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Workflow, content management, distributed authoring, personalization, document management, supply chain management, customer relationship management

Users authenticated via x.509 Version 3 certificates or via name/password, Secure Sockets Layer Version 3 for session encryption, S/MIME data encoding, DSAPI, supports Common Data Security Architecture, offers access control managed centrally across multi

x

Includes application-level fault tolerance, up to six servers can be clustered for failover and load balancing, failover/load balancing is automatically detected and is transparent to the user, failover and load balancing for browser users and Notes clien

x

$4,995 for up to 8 CPUs, $19,995 for 9 or more CPUs

ObjectSpace

(866) 932-2932

www.objectspace.com

Voyager Application Server 3.3

Windows NT/2000, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Solaris

Includes several IDEs and development kits, EJB Studio development tool, supports XML, JSP, COM, CORBA

EJB, RMI, CORBA, DCOM for development of legacy integration

RMI, JNDI, Voyager, CORBA, DCOM

JMS

Voyager Universal Directory Service

Support for secure communication over Secure Sockets Layer for remote communication over encrypted, authenticated channel, ability to tunnel through firewalls using HTTP or SOCKS 5 protocol

x

Support clustering

x

$6,000 per CPU for deployment license

Oracle

(650) 506-7000

www.oracle.com

Internet Application Server 8i 1.0.2

Windows NT, Linux, Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX, IBM AIX

Supports J2EE Servlets, JSP, EJB, CORBA, Business Components for Java, PL/SQL Server Pages, Perl, XML, includes Portal framework, wireless capabilities, JMS queuing systems

SAP R/3, MQSeries, Tibco Rendezvous, provides adapter SDK for developing connectors to other Enterprise Applications

Oracle, DB2, DB2/400, DRDA, APPC, CICS, IMS, EDA/SQL, VSAM, SUPRA, ADABAS, CA-IDMS, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, Ingres, Teradata, RDB, RMS, any ODBC and OLEDB-compliant drivers

HTTP, SMTP, FTP, IIOP, SNMP, JMS, JDBC, Net8, RMI/IIOP,WAP

Any LDAP-compliant directory including Oracle Internet Directory

Workflow, personalization, secure portal framework, supports an extensible Internet file system with versioning, interMedia text-based searching

Provides encryption, authentication, single sign-on, Secure Sockets Layer, X.509 certificates, DCE integration and Enterprise Directory Services

x

Provides load balancing, automatically detects/restarts failed servers, reroutes connections, isolates sessions, provides transparent application failover, cluster failover

x

$5 and $30 per universal power unit (for Intel processor pricing; multiply MHz by the number of CPUs by price; add 1.5 price conversion factor to multiplication for non-Intel processor)

Persistence Software

(800) 803-8491

www.persistence.com

PowerTier 6

Windows NT, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux

Uses Rational Rose or PowerTier's object builder to create model, then PowerTier automatically generates JSPs and Entity Beans, supports third-party IDEs, includes O/R mapping, supports XML, EJB, COM, CORBA

Tibco Rendezvous, all products that support the JMS standard such as MQSeries

Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Informix, Sybase

JMS, RMI/IIOP, FTP, TCP/IP, HTTP

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Workflow, personalization

Supports EJB 1.1 security features including authentication, authorization, encryption, supports the Java transaction API and Java Transaction Service

x

Supports load balancing and failover with automatic detection and rerouted requests, provides recovery of state at the servlet and EJB layers, provides synchronization of caches across multiple machines

x

$25,000 per CPU for deployment license

Secant Technologies

(888) 473-2268

www.secant.com

Extreme Enterprise Server 3.5

Windows NT, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, BSD

Support for JDK1.2.2, Visual Cafe, Jbuilder, optional integration with the Rational Rose visual modeling tool, supports XML, JSP, EJB, CORBA

SAP R/3, AS/400, CICS/3270

Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Informix, Sybase, MS Access

HTTP, IIOP, RMI/IIOP

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Provides integrated CORBA Security Service, Level 2 and CORBA Object Transaction Service 1.1

x

Automatic server-level and application-level load balancing with failover, automatic start/restart of application servers

x

$2,599 per developer seat

SilverStream Software

(978) 262-3000

www.silverstream.com

Application Server 3.5

Windows NT/2000, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Red Hat Linux

Integrates with Symantec WebGain VisualCafe, Borland Jbuilder, Macromedia Dreamweaver/UltraDev, Microsoft Visual J++, Rational ClearCase, Intersolv/Merant PVCS and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, supports XML, JSP, EJB, COM, CORBA

Lotus Notes, PeopleSoft, SAP, other legacy systems will be possible through xCommerce Enterprise Enablers

Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, MS SQL, any via JDBC or ODBC-compliant driver

SMTP, POP, IIOP, RMI, RMI-IIOP, SSL, HTTP, JMS

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Posting, versioning, workflow, personalization, rules engine

Provides a mechanism for creating users and groups, supports server and client side certificates, supports X.509 and Secure Sockets Layer

x

Supports auto-restart, session level failover, clustering mechanism supports failure detection, load balancing and distributed cache management

x

$15,000 per CPU for deployment license

Sybase

(800) 879-2273

www.sybase.com

EAServer 3.6

Windows NT, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX

Provides integrated deployment and remote debugging for C/C++ components, generates Unix and MS Visual C++ makefiles, supports XML, JSP, EJB, CORBA, supports COM clients such as VisualBasic and components

CICS, IMS/TM and MVS-native environments, Tuxedo and MQSeries

Oracle, Sybase, any via JDBC or ODBC-compliant driver

SMTP via JavaMail, HTTP, HTTPS, IIOP, IIOP/SSL, XML, TDS, LDAP, TCP/IP, EJB 1.1, JSP 1.1, JVM 1.2.2, JNDI, JDBC, JTA/OTS

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Process automation, workflow

IIOP/Secure Sockets Layer for CORBA clients, HTTP/Secure Sockets Layer for HTML/XML clients, Secure Sockets Layer supports encryption, supports username/password authentication, role-based authorization

x

Software clustering with versioned repository synchronization, recovers from failures of server/network hardware or software, failover of stateless and stateful/entity components

x

$7,500 per CPU

Unify

(916) 928-6400

www.unifyewave.com

eWave Engine 2.0

Windows NT, Solaris 7.0

Includes an IDE that provides JSP 1.1-compliant code and database access, supports all EJB 1.1 component libraries out of the box, includes a visual deployment Editor and Wizard, supports JSP, EJB, COM, CORBA

SAP R/3, J.D. Edwards, Baan, Siebel, Clarify and others via JDBC

Any via JDBC-compliant driver, certified JDBC drivers include: Sybase, Simba, Informix, Symantec dbAnywhere, Oracle

JMS, JNDI, JDBC, EJB 1.1, JSDK 2.2, JSP 1.1, JTA/JTS, JVM 1.2.2/1.3

Any LDAP-compliant directory

Implements the EJB 1.1 specification for authentication, provides a security manager, supports roles, user identities, passwords, database identities

x

Offers dynamic replication at application or system level without taking application servers offline, automatic load balancing and failover across application server hosting the replicated services, automatically reroutes messages to other servers

x

$4,995 per CPU