The Application
Broker and the Application Server provide the communication and processing
mechanisms for Application Dispatcher applications. An Application
Dispatcher application consists of one or more associated input components
and program components. The program components for an Application
Dispatcher application can be any of the following:
-
a SAS program (an external file
that has a .sas extension)
-
a source entry (a catalog entry
that has a .source extension)
-
an SCL entry (a catalog entry that
has a .scl extension)
-
a compiled macro (a catalog entry
that has a .macro extension).
The program
component that you create must be designed to accept the information
that is received from the Web browser. In many cases, this means that
you not only create the source program but also the HTML page that
passes information to the Application Broker.