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Two QuickTime applications that come with Mac OS X Server help you prepare content
for streaming:
• QTSS Publisher lets you upload content to the streaming server and prepare it for
delivery. It provides these key features: creation and management of playlists,
generation of content directory websites, and editing of content annotations.
The QuickTime Streaming Server administration guide describes how to use QTSS
Publisher.
• Quicktime Broadcaster lets you produce a live event. QuickTime Broadcaster allows
you to stream live audio and video over the Internet. QuickTime Broadcaster provides
preset broadcast settings and the ability to create custom settings. Built on top of
the QuickTime architecture, QuickTime Broadcaster enables you to produce a live
event using most codecs that QuickTime supports.
For information about QuickTime Broadcaster, go to www.apple.com/quicktime/
and navigate to the QuickTime Broadcaster page.
Application Server Support
An application server is software that runs and manages other applications, usually
web applications, which are accessed using a web browser. The managed applications
reside on the same computer where the application server runs.
One of the duties of the application server is to make sure the applications it manages
are always available. For example, if an application fails or becomes unresponsive, the
application server restarts it. Some application servers provide load balancing, which
spreads application load among two or more computers.
This section highlights three integrated application server technologies that Mac OS X
Server offers: Apache Tomcat, JBoss, and WebObjects. All of them are preinstalled with
the server and can be used in conjunction with Apache Axis, which is also preinstalled.
Axis is an open source Java framework for implementing web services over XML-based
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). For more information about SOAP, go to
www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/.
The web technologies administration guide provides more information about open-
source applications and modules included with Mac OS X Server.
Apache Tomcat
Tomcat is an open-source JavaServer Pages (JSP)/servlet container that is used in the
official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages
technologies.
• The specification for Java Servlet is at java.sun.com/products/servlets/.
• The specification for JavaServer Pages is at java.sun.com/products/jsp/.
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