At SupplySolution, Inc one of the servers that the i-Supply service uses is
known as the SSTM. The SSTM is a middleware server that exists between application servers and database servers. The SSTM communicates with a variety
of databases via JDBC and provides features such as:
connection throttling - server can be configured such that the load of the database server can be optimally tuned
SQL templates - all SQL can exist outside of source code
database session pooling
common API - independent of the underlying database
I created Mr. Sparkle originally as a tool to allow my co-workers a GUI for
testing SQL queries against the SSTM server. At SupplySolution, Mr. Sparkle was used by
development, QA, techinical support and operations.
After I completed a basic prototype I began to add a significant number
of features, largely on my own time, that I thought would be of great
benefit to my fellow employees. Mr. Sparkle is quite heavily used within
SupplySolution because it's feature-set rivals many commercial products.
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