NobleNet, Inc. announces its EZ-API product family, the first example of
commercial "Component APIs." Using NobleNet's innovative "OneDriver"
architecture, EZ-APIs simplify the integration of industry-standard and
custom APIs and enable developers to enhance API functions. Because
OneDriver tightly bundles a standard network transport with each API,
multiple APIs can share client, server and network resources. Component
API technology automatically multiplexes API calls over a single network
connection between client and server, and presents them to the server as a
single user process. By tightly integrating multiple APIs on the server,
application efficiency is increased, and servers can take on multiple API
"personalities." In addition, EZ-APIs encapsulate each API function call
in a modifiable source code wrapper on both the client and server,
allowing developers to add enhancements to standard APIs such as security,
auditing, compression, naming and caching. This is achieved without
modifying API behavior.

NobleNet's EZ-API family reflects an industry shift away from custom
communications interfaces and towards standard C-based procedural APIs
such as Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity API (ODBC) and Novell's
Telephony Services API (TSAPI). Although this leaves developers with the
need to find a framework to efficiently integrate multiple APIs and
optimize their performance, there are solutions available. In the
procedural world, NobleNet's EZ-APIs, provide this framework. Visual Basic
provides the framework in the GUI environment while OLE and CORBA2 provide
solutions in the object world.

The first member of the EZ-API family, the OneDriver ODBC SDK, relocates
the ODBC API from the Windows client to NT or to a wide variety of
powerful UNIX platforms. The SDK includes all necessary communications
software to connect Microsoft Windows 3.1, Win95, and NT clients to any
standard TCP/IP server platform. OneDriver ODBC works with any
ODBC-compliant database or front-end development tool including Visual
Basic, PowerBuilder, Delphi and Microsoft Access. As with all EZ-APIs, it
easily integrates with other "Component APIs" and offers enhancement
capability to developers.

In a related matter, NobleNet successfully demonstrated its OneDriver TSAPI
SDK technology at Novell's Brainshare '96 Developers Conference. The
demonstration will continue at the Client/Server and Database World
Exposition in Boston. OneDriver TSAPI SDK is targeted at TSAPI systems
integrators and PBX vendors building TSAPI- compliant drivers and
applications and computer vendors that need TSAPI client and/or server
capabilities.

About NobleNet

NobleNet offers tools for distributed client/server development for
procedural and object paradigms. Incorporated in 1991, NobleNet is a world
leader in Remote Procedure Call (RPC) technology and has won numerous
awards for its EZ-RPC product family. NobleNet also distributes IONA
Technologies' industry-leading "Orbix" CORBA-compliant Object Request
Broker. The company is headquartered in Southboro, MA, and can be reached
at (508) 460-8222 or at <http://www.noblenet.com/>.
 
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