Overview of SAS Foundation Services

SAS Foundation Services includes tools to enable application development and service administration for the SAS Foundation Services. Depending on the components that you choose to install, SAS Foundation Services includes one or more of the following components:

SAS Management Console plug-ins, which enable you to administer configuration metadata in a metadata repository. The following plug-ins can be installed with the SAS Foundation Services:
- Application Monitor, which enables administrators to monitor the performance and activities of a foundation service-enabled application.
- Foundation Services Manager, which enables administrators to define and manage service deployments and service configurations.
- Publishing Framework Manager, which enables administrators to set up metadata for users and applications to do the following:
  
  publish SAS files to a variety of destinations
  
  receive and process published information
For more information about SAS Foundation Services administration, see the online Help for the appropriate administrative plug-in.

SAS Foundation Services, which is a set of platform infrastructure and extension services for programmers who want to write applications that are integrated with the SAS platform. For information about coding applications that use the SAS Foundation Services, see Using SAS Foundation Services in SAS Integration Technologies: Java Client Developer's Guide in the SAS Integration Technologies: Java Client Developer's Guide.

The following table presents the function and related documentation for each of the SAS Foundation Services:

SAS Foundation Services

Service	Java Class	Function	Related Documentation
Connection Service	com.sas.services.connection.platform	IOM connection management	For details about administering the SAS servers that you connect to with the Connection Service, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Application Server Administration Guide. For development information and coding examples, see Using the Java Connection Factory in SAS Integration Technologies: Java Client Developer's Guide in the SAS Integration Technologies: Java Client Developer's Guide.
Discovery Service	com.sas.services.discovery	locating and binding to deployed services	For details about how applications use the Discovery Service, see Understanding How Applications Locate Foundation Services .
Event Broker Service	com.sas.services.events.broker	asynchronous event notification and request management to support dynamic, event-driven processes	For details about editing the Event Broker Service configuration, see Modifying the Session and User Service Configurations. For information about using the Publishing Framework to generate and publish events, see the SAS Publishing Framework: Developer's Guide.
Information Service	com.sas.services.information	repository federation, searching repositories, a common entity interface, and creating personal repositories	For details about editing the Information Service configuration, see Modifying the Information Service Configuration .
Logging Service	com.sas.services.logging	run-time execution tracing, response metric and resource utilization reporting, and error tracking	For details about editing the logging service configuration, see Modifying the Logging Service Configuration .
Publish Service	com.sas.services.publish	access to the publication framework	For details about the Publishing Framework, see the SAS Publishing Framework: Developer's Guide.
Security Service	com.sas.services.security	user authentication, propagation of user identity context across distributed security domains, and protected-resource access policy administration and enforcement	For detailed information about implementing security in your environment, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.
Session Service	com.sas.services.session	context management, resource management, and context passing	For details about editing the session service configuration, see Modifying the Session and User Service Configurations.
Stored Process Service	com.sas.services.storedprocess	access to stored process execution and package navigation	For details about stored processes, see the SAS Stored Processes: Developer's Guide.
User Service	com.sas.services.user	access to authenticated user context, access to global, solution-wide, and application-specific profiles, and access to personal objects	For details about editing the User Service configuration, see Modifying the Session and User Service Configurations.

In addition, you use the deployment utilities (com.sas.services.deployment) to deploy the services.

This document covers the following SAS Foundation Services topics:

service deployments

In order to use the foundation services in your applications, you must deploy the services. To deploy the services, you must configure a service deployment. To understand service deployments and service deployment configuration, see Understanding Service Deployments and Understanding Service Deployment Configuration .

service deployment definitions

To define and manage service deployments, see the Managing Service Deployments topics.

installing and running SAS Foundation Services as a Windows service

The Java Service Wrapper from Tanuki Software is provided with SAS Foundation Services. You can use this software to install and run SAS Foundation Services as a Windows service for use with any application that uses SAS Foundation Services. For details, see Overview of Installing and Running Foundation Services as a Windows Service .

applications that are enabled for SAS Foundation Services

To understand how applications deploy, locate, and share services, see the following topics:

service configurations

To understand how to modify the configurations of certain foundation services, see Overview of Modifying Service Configurations .