<s>
EntireX	B-Operating_System
DCOM	B-Operating_System
is	O
a	O
commercial	O
implementation	O
of	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
Distributed	B-Operating_System
Component	I-Operating_System
Object	I-Operating_System
Model	I-Operating_System
(	O
DCOM	B-Operating_System
)	O
technology	O
by	O
Software	O
AG	O
for	O
the	O
Windows	O
,	O
AIX	O
,	O
HP/UX	O
,	O
Solaris	O
,	O
Linux	O
,	O
AS/400	O
,	O
z/OS	O
,	O
z/VM	O
,	O
and	O
BS2000/OSD	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EntireX	B-Operating_System
is	O
a	O
software	O
product	O
developed	O
and	O
marketed	O
by	O
Software	O
AG	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
primarily	O
an	O
enterprise	B-Architecture
application	I-Architecture
integration	I-Architecture
product	O
,	O
designed	O
to	O
enable	O
application-level	O
integration	O
of	O
Windows	O
clients	O
(	O
desktops	O
,	O
laptops	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
enables	O
communication	O
between	O
DCOM	B-Operating_System
applications	O
running	O
on	O
Windows	O
and	O
non-Windows	O
platforms	O
in	O
heterogeneous	O
networks	O
(	O
networks	O
where	O
software	O
runs	O
in	O
diverse	O
operating	O
Systems	O
and	O
several	O
types	O
of	O
hardware	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
instance	O
,	O
it	O
enables	O
a	O
DCOM	B-Operating_System
application	O
running	O
on	O
a	O
Windows	O
machine	O
to	O
communicate	O
with	O
a	O
DCOM	B-Operating_System
application	O
running	O
on	O
an	O
AS/400	O
platform	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
recent	O
years	O
,	O
Software	O
AG	O
has	O
focused	O
EntireX	B-Operating_System
development	O
on	O
'	O
Web-enabling	O
'	O
mainframe	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EntireX	B-Operating_System
supports	O
mainframe	O
applications	O
executing	O
COBOL	O
,	O
Natural	O
,	O
Adabas	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
'	O
legacy	O
 '	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EntireX	B-Operating_System
allows	O
for	O
direct	O
user	O
and	O
client-computer	O
interactions	O
with	O
the	O
mainframe	O
or	O
web-hosted	O
application	O
,	O
by	O
encapsulating	O
functions	O
in	O
an	O
Active-X	O
like	O
control	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unlike	O
screen	O
scraping	O
,	O
EntireX	B-Operating_System
allows	O
old	O
mainframe	O
applications	O
and	O
web	O
services	O
to	O
remain	O
'	O
in	O
place	O
 '	O
,	O
while	O
extending	O
their	O
functional	O
capabilities	O
to	O
new	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EntireX	B-Operating_System
is	O
XML	O
compliant	O
and	O
offers	O
a	O
GUI	O
wizard-based	O
application	O
for	O
building	O
integration	O
solutions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
3	O
components	O
of	O
EntireX	B-Operating_System
:	O
</s>
<s>
EntireX	B-Operating_System
Adapters	O
,	O
which	O
provide	O
adapters	O
to	O
integrate	O
with	O
both	O
front-end	O
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
web	O
servers	O
,	O
app	O
servers	O
)	O
and	O
back-end	O
(	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
EntireX	B-Operating_System
supports	O
synchronous	O
and	O
asynchronous	O
communications	O
,	O
load	O
balancing	O
,	O
administrative	O
and	O
management	O
re-configurations	O
,	O
metadata	O
extraction	O
,	O
determining	O
which	O
Web	O
Services	O
are	O
enabled	O
and/or	O
consumed	O
,	O
and	O
related	O
meta-operations	O
.	O
</s>
