Protection! Overview

Protection! is a licensing toolkit for Java that ensures that users adhere to the terms of your applications' licensing agreements. Protection! lets you embed powerful license reading and validation code into the components and applications that you sell, preventing unlicensed use of your software. Protection! locks out unlicensed users, and ensures that licensed users can only access those features that they've paid for. Whether you license your software on a per seat basis or a per running copy basis, you have complete control over the number of copies that can run simultaneously. Protection! Licensing Toolkit ensures that the license was issued for the correct product that only the licensed features are available, that the license has not expired, that the user has accepted the terms of the license agreement, and that the proper number of copies are running on the network. Protection! locks out the pirates. This comprehensive toolkit for Java solves today's complex licensing challenges. The program minimizes users' ability to make unauthorized use of your applications, and frees you to work on the core functionality that makes your applications great.

Protection! Licensing Toolkit has two editions: Standard (will be referred to, in this User Guide, as Std) and Professional (will be referred to as Pro) and several additional applications designed to provide developer/publisher with most complete protection and licensing environment. For additional Protection! applications see corresponding topic later in this manual.

Protection!'s main features: