PR: New Release Of Servertec Persistent Object Store

Kearny, NJ. - September 1, 2002 - Servertec today announced the
availability of a new release of Servertec Persistent Object Store
(POS), a high-performance cross-platform object oriented database engine written entirely in JavaTM.

Servertec Persistent Object Store 1.1.0 09/01/2002 features
support for modified B-*trees and includes changes to more
efficiently store Dates, BigDecimals and BigIntegers.

Try Servertec Persistent Object Store Preview Release for 90 days for free at http://www.servertec.com/
(connect-time charges may apply).


About Servertec Persistent Object Store

Using Servertec Persistent Object Store developers can easily
create standalone database applications, including mobile and
wireless devices and embedded systems.

POS can be used on any platform that supports Java version 1.1.x or later.


Servertec Persistent Object Store Features

Platform Independent - Servertec Persistent Object Store is
written entirely in Java and will run on any platform that
supports Java version 1.1.x or later.

High Performance Database Engine - Servertec Persistent Object
Store is built around a multi-threaded database engine
optimized to reduce access to disk.

Easy to Use API - Servertec Persistent Object Store API is
similar to java.util.Hashtable and does not require SQL, JDBC
or OR (object to relational) mapping.

Tiny Footprint - Unlike most database engines/servers that
require considerable resources, Servertec Persistent Object Store
32-bit engine is only 26KB, making it the ideal database engine
for use in mobile and wireless devices and in embedded systems
applications.

Scalable Solution - Servertec Extended Persistent Object Store
64-bit engine supports distribution of object stores across
multiple volume files.

Fault Resistant - Operations in Servertec Persistent Object
Store are atomic with error checking.

Multi-User / Multi-Threaded - Multiple references can
concurrently access a store without having to worry about its
consistency.

Object Level Locking - Servertec Persistent Object Store
support of individual object locking adds to is high
concurrency and performance, since there is no need to block
threads while a group of objects are locked during update
operations.

Filtering - Object store enumeration filters and index filters
reduce the need to transport and process key/value pairs that do
not match the specified criteria.

Efficient Object Storage - Servertec Persistent Object Store
includes optimized serialization engine for storage and
retrieval of primitives, strings, blobs and serializable
objects.

Object Oriented - Using Servertec Persistent Object Store
developers can create persistent objects without having to
deal with OR mapping.

Fully Configurable - All aspects of an object store can be
specified when the store is created or later changed.

Hashing With Linked Overflow - Servertec Persistent Object Stores
utilizes hashing with linked overflow for collision resolution
when storing objects.

Indexes - Servertec Persistent Object Stores utilizes modified
B-*trees for storing objects in indexes.

Examples - The distribution contains address book indexed store
servlet, search servlet, employees store servlet and registry
store explorer examples with source code demonstrating many of
the key features.

Online Documentation - All documentation is available as Web
pages.

Other - Servertec Persistent Object Store includes utilities for
checking the integrity of object stores and indexes.


Pricing and Product Availability

End-Users can license Servertec Persistent Object Store on a
per-user basis for $50 US.

Corporations / Independent Software Vendors (ISV) may purchase a
site license to Servertec Persistent Object Store that allows
them to internally use Servertec Persistent Object Store on an
unlimited number of computers without having to pay on a per-user
basis and that allows them to embed and distribute Servertec
Persistent Object Store Royalty Free as an integral part of their
end-user applications. A Binary Subscription to Servertec
Persistent Object Store is available for $500 US and a Source
Subscription is available for $1,500 US.

All Corporate / ISV Subscriptions include 12 months of
Maintenance and Support.


About Servertec

Founded in 1996, Servertec develops and markets innovative
software products and services tailored to the needs of Web site
developers. Servertec products facilitate the development and
maintenance of dynamic, data driven and static Web pages and
empower Web site developers by shifting redundant and tedious
work to the computer.

Servertec Persistent Object Store is a trademark of Servertec in
the United States and/or other countries. Java and all Java-based
marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems,
Inc. in the United States and other countries. Servertec is
independent of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
are all are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation.