Netscape Application Server-- About Netscape Application Server Architecture


Application-Level Service	Description
State and session management	Manages state and session information for applications that require it.
Data access management	Provides and manages access to databases.
Transaction management	Manages database transactions, providing commit and rollback support for those transactions.
Template management	Manages the merging of result-set data with templates before data is returned to the user.
Client independent processing management	Manages data processing regardless of the type of client to which the data is being returned.
Email messaging	Provides email messaging services to be able to send emails from application code.
Time and event messaging	Allows application to invoke AppLogic objects based on time or event specifications.
HTML streaming	Provides streaming of data back to HTML clients so as to return data more efficiently.
SQL result-set caching	Caches result-set data so future requests can be processed more efficiently.