This product will allow you to convert your Windows, .NET, Java, AIR, Flash, Shockwave, or other Windows-compatible application into a self-contained virtual application that can be streamed from the web and run instantly on an end-user device. Unlike traditional deployment methods, virtual applications do not require reboots, administrative privileges, or separate setup steps for external components and runtimes. Virtual applications are isolated from other system applications, preventing DLL conflicts and other deployment nightmares.

Generate fully native executables: No "player" software, device drivers, or other separate components are required to execute your virtual application. Your virtualized application runs just like a native binary. Spoon works with existing, unmodified applications, services, and digital rights management (DRM) systems.
Support for both 32- and 64-bit applications: Spoon is the first and only virtualization engine in its class to support virtualization of both 32- and 64-bit applications. Spoon supports execution on both 32- and 64-bit operating system platforms.

Filesystem and registry virtualization: Comprehensive "Windows-on-Windows" user-mode virtualization environment simulates filesystem and registry subsystems, including process-local, isolated versions of privileged resources. Apply merge, override, or write-copy isolation semantics to govern interaction with the host device.
Virtualize Windows services and SQL Server: Spoon service virtualization allows Windows service dependencies, including SQL Server, to be virtualized as part of the application payload, eliminating separate server dependency and database installs.

Unprecedented performance: Unlike hardware virtualization, Spoon application virtualization technology allows applications to execute at virtually the same speed as native binaries. No host operating system is required, dramatically reducing payload size and enabling order-of-magnitude superior performance than machine-based virtualization.

Multi-platform capabilities: Platform merge allows virtual application behavior to be customized on a per-operating system basis while distributing a single, universal executable.
Completely user-mode virtual machine: Spoon virtualization takes place entirely in user mode. No device drivers, reboots, or user privileges are required for Spoon virtual applications to execute.
Windows side-by-side (SxS) engine support: The Spoon application virtualization engine completely supports virtualization of applications and assemblies using the Windows isolated application (SxS) manifest mechanism.

What is a virtual application?
A virtual application is a virtual machine image pre-configured with all of the files, registry data, settings, components, runtimes, and other dependencies required for a specific application to execute immediately. Virtual applications allow application publishers and IT administrators to significantly reduce the costs and complexity associated with development, setup, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of software applications.

For example, a publisher of an application based on the Microsoft .NET Framework or Java runtime engine might create a virtual application combining the application with the required runtime engine. An end-user can run this application immediately, even if the user has not installed the required runtime engine, or has an incompatible runtime engine installed. This improves both the user experience and reduces test and support complexity associated with deploying the application.

Because virtual applications run in isolated execution environments, it is possible to simultaneously execute multiple applications which would otherwise interfere with one another. For example, applications which overwrite system DLLs or require different runtime engine versions can all run simultaneously on a single host device. As an additional advantage, virtual applications can provide access to internal virtualized copies of privileged system resources, allowing unprivileged users to directly execute many applications without security exceptions or irritating Vista UAC prompts.

Does not require any operating system to be installed onto the virtual application: Spoon virtual apps provide all required virtualized operating system functionality within the internal virtual environment.

Spoon Studio features overview
- Create virtual applications that can be streamed from the web: Eliminate long downloads and installs, and run virtual apps from any desktop with broadband Internet access.
- Create an application as a single executable that runs immediately: Package all application files, registry settings, runtimes, and components into a single executable that runs immediately.
- Run Java and .NET without separate runtime installations: Java and/or .NET-based applications run immediately, with no separate installation steps or runtime versioning conflicts.
- Improve desktop security: Execute your applications without granting administrative permissions to end-users. Stabilize desktop images by deploying applications in Spoon sandboxed virtual environments.
- Eliminate third-party setup dependencies: Integrate third-party components, COM/VB controls, and content viewers such as Acrobat, Flash, and Shockwave, directly into your application.
- Eliminate Vista UAC prompts and compatibility errors: Deploy Spoon virtual apps regardless of access to privileged system resources, relieving users of annoying Vista UAC prompts.
- Leverage Terminal Services and Citrix investments: By isolating applications from global resource areas, Spoon virtual application technology allows non-compliant applications to function properly in Terminal Server and Citrix environments.
- Deploy instantly on USB drives: Improve mobile worker productivity by placing your Spoon virtual application onto a USB flash-memory drive. Run your application immediately on remote PCs, with no installation steps, administrative privileges or driver installations.
- Dramatically reduce test and support costs: Eliminate versioning conflicts, dependencies, and "DLL hell". Reduce test complexity and eliminate support requests associated with dependency installation and inter-application resource conflicts.