Major components of QMF Visionary
QMF Visionary is a set of products for building, deploying,
and viewing dynamic, data-driven applications that integrate structured
and unstructured data in a visual display of information. These
applications are called QMF Visionary worlds and consist of graphical
scenes of text, graphics, charts, and other rich content that content
that can be stored in one or more databases.
The
QMF Visionary product set provides the following application:
- QMF Visionary Studio. The development
environment for building worlds.
- QMF Visionary World Server. A server that
interacts with a Web server for deploying QMF Visionary worlds across
the Internet for the following types of Web servers:
- Microsoft(R) Internet
Information Services (IIS)
- Java(TM) Web
Servers
- QMF Visionary Administrator. An application
for administering QMF Visionary World Server and editing the access
properties of worlds published to the Internet.
- QMF Visionary WorldView.
An application to view published worlds:
- For worlds deployed in a client/server environment, it communicates with
the database server through ODBC, QMF, or both.
- For worlds deployed to the Internet, it acts as a browser.
- QMF Visionary Viewer. Three versions for
viewing published worlds:
- An ActiveX control for use in Microsoft Internet Explorer or
other applications that support ActiveX controls, such as Microsoft PowerPoint,
Microsoft Excel, or a Visual Basic application.
- A Netscape Navigator browser plug-ins for viewing worlds deployed
to the Internet.
- A Java applet for viewing worlds in any browser and on any platform that
supports Java.
QMF
Visionary products are supplied in the following packages:
- QMF Visionary Developer.
Provides the tools to build, test, and publish a QMF Visionary world.
Includes QMF Visionary Studio, QMF Visionary WorldView, and QMF Visionary
Viewer. See the DB2 QMF Visionary Developer's Guide for
more information.
- QMF Visionary World Server. Provides
the components to enable Web servers to deliver QMF Visionary worlds
to Web users both inside and outside a firewall on Microsoft IIS
and Java Web servers. Includes QMF Visionary World Server for Microsoft
IIS, QMF Visionary World Server for Java, QMF Visionary Administrator
for Microsoft IIS, QMF Visionary Administrator for Java, and the QMF Visionary End
User package. See the DB2 QMF Visionary Administrator's Guide for
more information.
- QMF Visionary End User. Provides
the components to browse and interact with a published world deployed
to the Internet, using HTTP or HTTPS. Includes QMF Visionary WorldView
and QMF Visionary Viewer. See the DB2 QMF Visionary Administrator's Guide for
more information.