ANSI offers new Open Commerce Services

Advanced Network Systems (ANSI) is offering the Open Commerce Services framework. The software includes ANSI Studio for HP 3000 VPlus applications, an IDE used for evolving those apps into J2EE-compliant components. Servlets, JSPs and Java applets can be deployed automatically to any J2EE-compliant application server including ANSI-Web, WebLogic, WebSphere, BEA or Bluestone.

ANSI’s president David Thatcher said the OCS framework is based on open standards that integrate with existing systems and can respond and evolve to rapid change. “Our message is to continue to develop with confidence on the HP e3000, knowing that our solutions are operating system-, DBMS- and hardware-neutral.”

For MPE environments, ANSI OCS provides the MPE/iX Enterprise Client API for client access to Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SMTP servers, and Enterprise Applications such as SAP/. The MPE/iX Enterprise Client supports embedded SQL, providing an alternative for the now unsupported Oracle Gateway for the HP 3000. The client includes facilities to create Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2 tables from IMAGE datasets. Data replication from the IMAGE datasets into the newly-created tables is also supported.