Technical

Xenon is a next generation n-tier Java application with a single source code base. This technical architecture is key to providing clients with an extensible, agile and future-proof solution.

The Java platform enables Xenon to offer high performance, load balancing software, and publish five times a year thoroughly tested upgrades with substantive new functionality.

A rich Java client is downloaded to each user’s workstation, and is connected (via a secure socket layer (“SSL”) and load balancer) to the application servers. On the third tier is ObjectStore, an object-oriented database that enables rapid development in Java of complex data structures. Sakonnet's latest release is based on a comprehensive rearchitecture around Oracle 10g. The diagram below illustrates this new architecture.

Sakonnet has built XIP, or the Xenon Integration Platform, an enterprise service bus (ESB) or middleware which enables fast, inexpensive and sustainable integration of Xenon to brokers, exchanges and market data providers. Xenon can also be linked via XIP or directly to customers’ own applications.

Xenon is available as either a hosted or in-house installation. Users of the hosted model access servers at a remote, secure AT&T-run data center, and are connected via the Internet or private line.