Introduction to the PLANTA Software Technology

Information

• PLANTA project is a 3-tier application consisting of the following components:
  • PLANTA project Server (business layer)
  • PLANTA project Client (presentation layer)
  • Database (data layer)
• PLANTA project
  • can be run on a large number of platforms (operating systems) and database systems and is functionally identical on all of them.
  • can usually be run on virtualized systems.
• Client and server communicate
  • via TCP/IP protocol.
  • server and database takes place via JDBC.
• The PLANTA software uses a Java-based, process-based 64bit architecture. PLANTA Server is conterminous with the PLANTA service which starts the server in client connections. For further information on this, please click here.

Details

• The PLANTA Server component uses the Java platform in substantial parts.
  • Some of the libraries used here are: Hibernate, Envers, Logback.
• Additionally, part of the business logic is written in C/C++ and Python.
• The smart client is a .NET application developed in C# (Windows Forms/WPF) and requires the respective runtime on the part of the client.