Novell exteNd, formerly known as SilverStream, was a web application development suite from Novell that was discontinued in 2005^{[citation needed]}.

Novell had purchased SilverStream in the summer of 2002.^[1]

As of November 2003, exteNd was still a "work in progress" according to InfoWorld.^[1]

The latest version was 5.2. With the release of Novell Identity Manager 3, the components of the portal services in exteNd were rebranded into the IDM User Application, a component of NetIQ Identity Manager.^{[citation needed]}

The ExteNd platform provides a visual environment that simplifies the development and deployment of business solutions that exploit existing systems.^{[citation needed]} Based on Java technology, it contains tools for integration of legacy systems to Web Services with XML and Java EE. Web Portal contains standard-based portlets.^{[citation needed]}

Novell exteNd has four components:

• The exteNd Application Server, which extends the SilverStream application server^[1]
• The exteNd Composer, a run-time engine and development suite^[1]
• The exteNd Director, which constructs and executes portals and web applications^[1]
• The exteNd Workbench, an IDE which Novell was in the process of merging with the exteNd Director.^[1] The tool provides an intuitive GUI for deploying on J2EE.^[2]

Integration connectors includes:^{[citation needed]}

• IBM 3270
• IBM 5250
• EDI
• HTML
• SAP
• CICS
• JMS
• HP 3000
• JDBC
• LDAP
• Telnet
• Tandem
• T27

Users of Novell exteNd included Hartford Hospital^[3] and Imperial Sugar Company.^[2]

• Novell's product page for exteNd

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