What is Caravan Server? 

(also called as Caravan or Caravan Business Server)

CARAVAN BUSINESS SERVER (CBS) – currently promoted as a Freeware Development Tool (For Support costs and Runtime Licenses, please contact us)

Caravan Server is an extremely powerful and easy to use development platform for building Web-based applications. It includes an easy to use Scripting language, inbuilt Database which is both a Search Engine as well as an RDBMS, Web Server and a Communication Server which makes it a 1-Tier architecture.

CBS is currently available on Linux, OS/2 and Microsoft Platforms. Once the application is developed on any platform the same can be simply redeployed on any other platform. One can deploy the entire server even on a floppy disc thereby giving a very high level of portability, very fast and easy setup and deployment

Applications developed using CBS have been in use in for the past 4 years in a large number on installations.

The purpose of Caravan is to make it easy to build reliable, high performance and mission critical applications using an object based architecture. Caravan provides the objects which are needed for data access, communications and user interface.

It is possible to build almost any type of application by using a combination of the available objects. What is most unique to Caravan is that there are just a few object types that are necessary to do this.

Caravan itself is written in c++, making it possible to encapsulate the major technologies which are needed for building advanced applications. It has been built completely from scratch using a totally new and unique approach

There is a common source for all platforms, so all versions are released simultaneously and there are no platform specific features or anomalies. Therefore porting to multiple unix based systems is also a seamless task.