Advantages over Implementations using CCI
- Performance: Client/Server Binding for Server Enterprise Edition is faster, particularly when beginning a conversation, because it does not need to start a subserver and open a second connection
- Firewalls: Client/Server Binding for Server Enterprise Edition only uses a single TCP port on the server, and the server can be configured to always use the same port, which simplifies firewall configuration
- Direct addressing: using the machinename parameter, the client can specify the hostname and port number of the ES listener for the server
- Middleware features: the MFBINP protocol used by Client/Server Binding for Server Enterprise Edition has additional features such as message digests and compression (see below)
- Server administration: Client/Server Binding for Server Enterprise Edition server programs run under Server Enterprise Edition hosted CSBIND services, so they are administered using the Micro Focus Directory Server (MFDS). MFDS maintains the server configuration information and can automatically start your enterprise server at system boot, so servers do not need to be started manually with Client/Server Binding for Server Enterprise Edition.
- Server environment: Client/Server Binding for Server Enterprise Edition application server modules run in Server Enterprise Edition application containers. See the Server Enterprise Edition documentation for more information on the advantages of running under Server Enterprise Edition.
- No preset limit on the number of clients.