Host Access Solutions: Terminal Emulation Software and Host Integration

Using BEA WebLogic to Deploy the PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® Terminal Emulator

3270, 5250, VT100/VT220/VT420, SCO ANSI and Wyse 60 Web Based Terminal Emulator

Zephyr's PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® software, a browser-based terminal emulator that can be installed and deployed from a web server, can be used with the popular BEA WebLogic Application Server. PASSPORT provides 3270, 5250, VT100/VT220/VT420, SCO ANSI and Wyse 60 host access to IBM zSeries (S/390), IBM iSeries (AS/400) and UNIX® host systems,as well as FTP file transfer.

PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® Server Component

The PASSPORT Server component provides centralized configuration and administration of all end user host sessions. All software and configuration files reside on the web server. When a host session is started, an ActiveX applet is downloaded from the web server to the client desktop and runs inside Internet Explorer, making a direct connection to the host system.

PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® can be deployed from a Microsoft Windows 2003, 2000 or NT Server with IIS (Internet Information Server), an IBM OS/390 or zOS system running UNIX® System Services and WebSphere Application Server, an Apache Tomcat Web Server, and any server running BEA's WebLogic Application Server.

The PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® administration program is basically a web site that interfaces with a java servlet application. PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® can be deployed to any web application server that can display static web pages and also run java servlets. This includes the BEA WebLogic Server. The BEA WebLogic Server includes a high-performance web server for hosting static content and dynamic web applications. Web applications are a collection of HTML pages, java servlet pages, servlets, java classes, applets, images, multimedia files and other file types. The WebLogic Server also offers J2EE compliant services, web services, enterprise messaging and other services.

BEA WebLogic Server

BEA WebLogic Server is available on all of the leading mainframe, UNIX®, Windows and Linux operating systems including IBM zSeries (S/390) and IBM iSeries (AS/400).

More information on the BEA WebLogic Server

List of all operating system platforms for BEA WebLogic Server

Deploying PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® from WebLogic Server

• The PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® administration and deployment web site must be transferred to the BEA WebLogic directory where HTML pages are deployed.
• The PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® java servlet files must be transferred to the BEA WebLogic directory where java servlets are deployed
• The BEA WebLogic and PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® configuration files must be edited. After this, the PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® Administrator program can then be accessed through Internet Explorer to configure host sessions for deployment. End-Users can then access a web site link to start host sessions.

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About BEA Sytems

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is one of the world's leading application infrastructure software companies. Businesses built on the award-winning BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform are reliable, highly scalable, and poised to bring new services to market quickly. BEA headquarters are in San Jose, California and can be accessed on the web at www.bea.com.

Zephyr, PASSPORT and PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® are trademarks of Zephyr Development Corporation. BEA and WebLogic are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.

Quicktrial or Download Options

There are two ways to evaluate the PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® terminal emulator: either download a copy of the software or do a QuickTrial of the PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® application. With QuickTrial, there is no server installation, you simply download the client and run the application from our web server. This is a fast and easy way to look at the PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® software. For those that want to install the PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® software on their own web server, you can download the fully functional 3270, 5250, SCO ANSI, VT100/VT220/VT420 and Wyse 60 emulator trial and complete a full evaluation.