Protection! Applications

Protection! provides the following core applications:


Protection! Developer Control Center

Protection! Control Center offers a central location for Product Management, License Generation, License Maintenance and generation of the corresponding code Snippets as ready-to-use Java implementation files, License deployment and Protection! Web Services application configuration. Protection! Control Center allows the developer to manage an unlimited number of products and product feature sets.


Protection! Sales Control Center

Protection! Sales application designed for the companies' sales team. Protection! Sales provide Protection! Control Center with complete licensing functionality and hides all of the developer-oriented features. With Protection! Sales users are able to work *only* with the existing products storages.

Protection! Sales also extend Protection! Developer functionality by providing additional sales related functionalities like Validating Deactivation Key dialog box. All of the Protection! Sales only related functionalities are identified later in this guide.


Protection! Builder Utility

This new command line utility allows building various Protection! resources. Protection! Builder Utility allows for the use of various build systems (i.e., Apache Ant) and scripts to automate assembling of protected applications. This utility allows building:


Protection! Backend

Protection! Backend is designed to automate all of the manual licensing functions as well as provide the ability to tie Protection! Backend to *ANY* back-office systems (CRM, SFA, Databases, ERP, etc).

Protection! Developer Professional includes the ability for developers to architect, implement and test their backend solution without the need for a commercial deployment license. The following are few limitations that will be applied:

To deploy Protection! Backend Application for commercial use a valid Protection! Backend Deployment license needs to be purchased.


Protection! Licensing Server

Licensing Server is a new Protection! sub-system responsible for distribution of licenses and for tracking of the concurrent use of licenses. The Licensing Server application is a turnkey solution that is deployed inside the customer's network. It can be run as a Windows service or as a UNIX daemon. The main features of the Licensing Server are:


Protection! Licensing Server Management Console

The Management Console is a GUI application intended for remote monitoring and management the Licensing Server(s). The main features of the Management Console are:


Demo Calculator Application

Demo Calculator is simple straight forward implementation of Protection! designed to illustrate quick how-to. Demo Calculator is a demo only product outlining basic Protection! principals and usages. In no way Demo Calculator could be considered as a complete licensing solution.