QMF Version 8

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.

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