The platform provides the required software components and a set of APIs to support the following functionalities: 

• Memory management
• Thread management
• System Resource management
• Tracing
• Management Instance Tree 
• Information Repository
• Dynamic Management Information Base
• Fault Tolerance
• Rules Engine 
• Flow control of messages
• Request handling
• Database interfacing

The M*Ware platform communicates over a ubiquitous CORBA bus amongst different M*Ware components.

The M*Ware platform offers the developer:

• A powerful data model to represent complex information in the application 
• Automatic implementation of defined objects based on the Information Model 
• Automatic database schema based on the Information Model 
• Generation of Application specific JAVA beans for easier accessibility 
• Automatic persistent/non-persistent functionality for all data types 
• Efficient storage and retrieval from persistent storage thus avoiding conversion between encoded formats and in-memory formats 
• Automatic conversions between interface data (protocol) and implementation data (protocol neutral) 
• Automatic support for coarse-grained, medium-grained and fine-grained interface objects 
• Consistent, uniform access to the application data using external and/or local interface 
• Fully transactional with 2 phase commit transaction engine for object access 
• Optimized for space and performance 
• Support for thread-safe database objects access 
• Support for persistent object hash collections – used for storing/retrieving of most frequently used objects 
• Efficient filtering schemes to access object collections 
• Support for ODBC compliant database 
• Customization using desired programming language (C++ or Java) 
• Customization using scripting language (TCL or JACL)

The M*Ware platform is available over a variety of platforms: Solaris 2.8, Windows NT/2000 and HPUX 11i.