VCampus Corporation

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VCampus(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: VCMP) is the leading provider of end-to-end e-Learning solutions. The company develops, manages and hosts turnkey, web-based learning solutions for corporations, government agencies and higher education institutions. VCampus enables these organizations to offer complete global distance learning solutions to their customers, employees, distributors, suppliers and students. VCampus' e-Learning solutions are designed to help clients deliver higher education programs to adult students; improve the performance of their distribution channels and suppliers; measure and develop their employees' knowledge, skills and abilities; and increase their customers' satisfaction and loyalty. VCampus distributes a courseware library of more than 5,200 web-based courses and has delivered more than 2.5 million courses to over 700,000 adult learners.


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  • Current Status: Deployed
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  • Precision: 32-bit
  • Development language: Java
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VCampus Corporation selected Objectivity/DB as the core of an object oriented architecture designed to meet VCampus' needs as an e-Learning Application Service Provider (ASP). As an ASP, the needs of VCampus vary greatly from those provided by most other enterprise architectures.

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The VCampus platform, designed around Objectivity/DB and Java, takes a revolutionary approach to providing high-availability Web-based e-Learning services for a variety of clients. The company's diverse client base, which includes corporations, government agencies, and institutions of higher education, compelled VCampus to design a solution that was totally flexible to suit each customer's needs. The VCampus platform delivers many features not found in other e-Learning solutions such as on-the-fly maintenance to virtually eliminate down time, high total availability for mission critical applications, and scalability to handle future growth and demand spikes. Additionally, VCampus needed their solution to run on multiple servers to handle distributed situations, and to be flexible so it can be tailored for each customer to suit their needs, including language preference. VCampus also designed their solution to be secure, auditable, highly visible for ease of management, as well as self-balancing to load balance across multiple servers for high performance.

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  • ODMG - VCampus is developing using Objectivity/DB for Java, which provides full support for Java,

including a language binding compliant with the ODMG 2.0 standard.

  • Performance - It also offers the highest performing solution in the industry due to its unique "single process model" architecture for Java-based applications. This architecture, where the Objectivity database interface runs in the same process as the Java Virtual Machine, is faster as valuable processing cycles are not wasted on

constant process switching.

  • Multi-threading - Objectivity for Java fully supports Java multi-threading and

transactions can share threads or have a thread dedicated to a particular transaction.

  • High Availability - To ensure continuous availability of their solution, VCampus will also deploy Objectivity's powerful

Fault Tolerant and Data Replication Options. The Fault Tolerant Option (FTO) ensures data availability in the event of system failure and the Data Replication Option (DRO) provides sophisticated data replication across geographically dispersed servers.

We were also able to demonstrate compatibility with Java Multimedia Services for streaming video, though it is not clear that this feature was actually used in production.

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[edit] Why They Chose Objectivity

"After careful analysis we realized that a relational database was not well-suited for handling the requirements of our complex e-Learning objects and data," said Steve Harrington, VCampus Director of Operations. "We selected Objectivity because its distributed architecture provides us with all of the features, performance and flexibility we need to offer e-Learning solutions that are unparalleled in the industry."

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