WebORB for .NET product features fall into one of the following categories:
Developer productivity
Remoting invocation support
Data management
Real-time messaging and streaming
Feature/Edition |
Community Edition |
Enterprise Edition |
Limitations |
does not operate in a clustered environment, see below |
None |
License key required |
Yes (apply here) |
Yes |
Support |
No |
Yes |
Cost |
FREE |
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Enterprise Features |
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Clustering support |
No |
Yes |
Standalone mode (does not require IIS) |
No |
Yes |
Developer Productivity |
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Management console |
Yes |
Yes |
Service browser to inspect deployed services |
Yes |
Yes |
Invocation test drive to invoke methods from the console |
Yes |
Yes |
Flex, Flash, AJAX, Silverlight Remoting code generator |
Yes |
Yes |
Single-click deployment |
Yes |
Yes |
Remote Invocation Support |
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Flex remoting (AMF3, RemoteObject API) |
Yes |
Yes |
Flash remoting (AMF0) |
Yes |
Yes |
AJAX client support |
Yes |
Yes |
Session-scoped services |
Yes |
Yes |
Global stateful services |
Yes |
Yes |
Custom service activation |
Yes |
Yes |
Service-level security |
Yes |
Yes |
Custom serializers |
Yes |
Yes |
Service factories |
Yes |
Yes |
Data Management |
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WebORB Data Management for Flex (WDMF) |
Yes |
Yes |
Client synchronization |
Yes |
Yes |
Real-time Messaging and Streaming |
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RTMP and RTMPT support |
Yes |
Yes |
Standalone WebORB Server |
No |
Yes |
Flex Messaging (Consumer/Producer API) |
Yes |
Yes |
MSMQ Integration |
Yes |
Yes |
Remote Shared Object API support |
Yes |
Yes |
Client stream recording |
Yes |
Yes |
Video streaming |
Yes |
Yes |
Server-to-client invocation |
Yes |
Yes |
Client-to-client invocation |
Yes |
Yes |
Server-initiated streaming |
Yes |
Yes |