Chris Keever

With the buzz surrounding e-business these days, distributed applications are taking center stage. As EAServer developers, we have a powerful development platform and a broad palette of choices when it comes to the types of components we implement. This flexibility can become crucial when integrating new development with current systems. For example, on a recent project our team was tasked to integrate existing logic with the new system we were building. Although the chosen architecture for our system was EAServer, the "legacy" components were written by our client's internal team using Microsoft tools and were part of an existing live IVR system. Since Jaguar provides support for several distributed computing models, including Microsoft's COM, we were able to leverage existing code instead of rewriting it. In this article I describe how to take advantage of Jaguar'... (more)

Integrating Remote COM Components With EAServer

With the buzz surrounding e-business these days, distributed applications are taking center stage. As EAServer developers, we have a powerful development platform and a broad palette of choices when it comes to the types of components we implement. This flexibility can become crucial when integrating new development with current systems. For example, on a recent project our team was tasked to integrate existing logic with the new system we were building. Although the chosen architecture for our system was EAServer, the "legacy" components were written by our client's internal te... (more)