• Open-Source Architecture

Our strategic aim for the architecture was to provide an early to market development environment which allows operating costs to be minimised for both the development team and client deployments. Open-source software with LPGL variable support programs offer the potential for lowering development and support costs.

• Database

Relational database technologies supported include MySQL 5.0 and 5.1. Other database servers, such as Oracle, can be incorporated to meet client infrastructure requirements.

• Application Server

We use GlassFish as the core technology in our proprietary applications. It is an open-source, enterprise- quality, Java EE 5-compliant application server. Used in conjunction with MySQL it provides a very low cost, efficient, and secure web development environment.

• Reporting

The flexible reporting infrastructure provides a collection of common reports with the ability to easily integrate new custom reports. By using the JasperReports engine, a large variety of output formats are supported, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PDF, etc. Professionally styled reports can be created with the iReport design tool and can incorporate special Zamber property extensions that enable a rich set of report input parameters from the Zamber user interface.

• Security

The Zamber framework can be used as part of a simple file based security system or as part of a corporate security LDAP server based structure.

• Protocols

Zamber provides the ability to communicate directly with the target device via SNMP or TL1. Additionally it can interface with secondary management tools that must be used when direct access to the device is not an available option.