IBM Corp has announced pre-written and pre-tested Java order processing warehouse management components for use in conjunction with its San Francisco framework for building Java-based server- side applications running on top of a Java Virtual Machine. They’ll ship by year-end along with a graphical user interface framework. Accounts receivable and accounts payable modules are due later this year as well as ports of the core San Francisco foundation and middleware technologies to Solaris and HP-UX in addition to the AIX, OS/400 and NT versions. IBM says it will also provide a migration path for developers so that applications created using the business application frameworks such as general ledger can be run on top of Enterprise Java Beans-based middleware. The idea is that San Francisco components are used by programmers to generate up to 40% of a complete application. In addition Visient Corp and Select Software Tools have created tools suites enabling developers to write applications for use with San Francisco. IBM says it’s working to support Oracle and Posix database schemas so that San Francisco data can be stored in something other than DB2. An SQL Server schema will follow. IBM claims 175 San Francisco applications have been created to date.
