According to IDC, by 2006, most e-commerce will depend on software supported by Web services. With interoperability and compatibility such critical requirements, Droplets enables your IT organization to create and deploy applications in a single, standard language, while interoperating with your back-end systems, tools and platforms.

Next-generation functionality served through existing protocols
The Droplets User Interface Server has been designed to interoperate with a wide variety of platforms, applications and standards, and includes support for essential standard technologies like SSL, challenge-response authentication, HTTP tunneling, HTTPS and SNMP - making it straightforward and fast to implement and maintain within your existing network.

They're all here: HTTP, J2EE, SOAP, XML
Applications presented as Droplets are fully capable of interoperating with EJB/J2EE-based application servers and portal servers, and accessing XML-based Web services. Developers can access Web Services using standard Java XML & HTTP libraries, a commercial or open-source SOAP toolkit, or a middleware platform like The Mind Electric's GLUE.

A Non-Proprietary Development Tool
The Droplets platform includes a Software Development Kit (SDK) with full APIs for Java, C++, Micro Focus Object COBOL and soon any .NET language. The Droplets SDK works out of the box with any integrated development environment (IDE), and Droplets is working to make it even easier to build applications with leading IDE's, including Borland JBuilder, Eclipse, Micro Focus Net Express, Sun ONE Studio (formerly Forte), Oracle jDeveloper and Microsoft Visual Studio .Net.

Benefits of Droplets standards-based development include:

• Only platform that supports only open-standard languages and technologies
  
  
• Application development using a single standard language
  
  
• Non-proprietary development with full APIs for Java, C++, and Micro Focus Object COBOL, along with support for leading IDEs
  
  

To see Droplets applications in action, visit our Case Studies page.

To try out our product, download an evaluation copy of the Droplets UI Server and SDK at http://www.droplets.com/sdk.

For technical support using our product, please visit our Developer Zone, where you will find access to on-line documentation, tutorials, FAQs, and our live Developer Forums.

To license our product, please visit our Licensing Page.