Acquired Intelligence: Acquire Service

Acquire^® (NT/2000/XP) Service

The Acquire Service, featured in the Acquire software package, is an NT/2000/XP service that allows Acquire knowledge bases to be used in a client/server environment. This diagram illustrates the relationship between the Acquire Service and an application that makes use of it.

The Acquire Service contains Acquire's inference engine and performs the heavy computational work of running cases and generating reports. The knowledge base (KB) files reside with the service on the server computer.

A client application runs on a remote computer that is connected by a network to the computer that is running the service. (The client can also run on the same computer that is running the service.) If the client and server computers are both connected to the Internet, they can be located anywhere in the world.

Client applications communicate with the Acquire Service by making calls to the Acquire client API library or by using the Acquire client ActiveX control.

Use of the Acquire Service is nearly transparent to client applications. In many cases, the source code for client/server and non-client/server versions of an application are identical. The only additional consideration in the client/server version is that it must specify the host name and port number at which the Acquire Service can be reached.

Acquire® (NT/2000/XP) Service

Acquire^® (NT/2000/XP) Service