GNUe Common

GNU Enterprise Common is a common library of routines that GNUe Forms, GNUe Designer, GNUe Reports and GNUe Application Server use to provide various shared functions:

• Database Abstraction - to support multiple different database back-ends.
• A Client-Server application framework - to allow different parts of the GNUe framwork to operate on different physical machines.
• RPC abstraction - to support multiple different Remote Procedure Call methods.
• Object-to-XML and XML-to-Object library - a common XML parser.

It is also, under the name GNU-RPC, a proposed standard RPC module for use by any GNU project, or any other project, that needs database and RPC abstraction.

Supported Databases

Database back-end servers which are currently supported include:

• Free database servers:
• SAP-DB
• Postgresql
• MySQL
• Firebird
• Non-free database servers:
• Oracle
• DB2
• Interbase
• Generic database servers:
• ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity)

Supported RPCs

Remote Protocol Communication standards that are intended to be supported include:

• CORBA
• XML-RPC
• SOAP

Status