Object Design Inc. ObjectStore product was also evaluated in the project s early investigations. Evaluation copies were downloaded from the vendor s website , and each product was investigated by running the included tutorial examples. The program can no longer run or be reinstalled once the trial period expires. POET evaluation copy has no time expiration and the evaluation license is valid until the POET product is to be distributed by the POET customer. ObjectStore does not offer any technical support unless the product is purchased.
POET offers limited technical support during evaluation.
Technical support was already contacted during the tutorial evaluation, and quickly resolved issue over the phone. POET has extension tools for Rational Rose, which will be used for this project s modeling. The real-estate application will be implemented in Java. The server will not have any graphical user interface, and will therefore be headless. The role of the clients will be GUI front-end applications interface with the headless server to request the appropriate services.