The SAS Web Infrastructure Platform is a collection
of services and applications that provide common infrastructure and
integration features to be used by SAS Web applications. These services
and applications provide the following benefits:
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consistency in installation, configuration,
and administration tasks for Web applications
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greater consistency in users' interactions
with Web applications
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integration among Web applications
as a result of the ability to share common resources
The following services and applications are included
in the SAS Web Infrastructure Platform:
SAS BI Web Services for Java
can be used to enable
your custom applications to invoke and obtain metadata about SAS Stored
Processes. Web services enable distributed applications that are written
in different programming languages and that run on different operating
systems to communicate using standard Web-based protocols. The most
common protocol is the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
The SAS BI Web Services
for Java interface is based on the XML for Analysis (XMLA) Version
1.1 specification.
contains graph applet
JARs that are shared across SAS Web applications. They display graphs
in stored processes and in the SAS Stored Process Web application.
SAS Web Infrastructure Platform Services
provide a common infrastructure
for SAS Web applications. The infrastructure supports activities such
as auditing, authentication, configuration, status and monitoring,
e-mail, theme management, and data sharing across SAS Web applications.
provides a common user
authentication mechanism for SAS Web applications. It displays a dialog
box for user ID and password entry, authenticates the user, and launches
the requested application. SAS Logon Manager supports a single sign-on
authentication model. When this model is enabled, it provides access
to a variety of computing resources (including servers and Web pages)
during the application session without repeatedly prompting the user
for credentials.
You can configure SAS
Logon Manager to display custom messages and to specify whether a
logon dialog box is displayed when users log off.
In addition, you can
use third-party products in conjunction with SAS Logon Manager to
enable users to access multiple Web applications within the same browser
session.
provides a common mechanism
for managing preferences for SAS Web applications. The feature enables
administrators to set default preferences for locale, theme, alert
notification, and time, date, and currency display. Within each Web
application, users can view the default settings and update their
individual preferences.
SAS Stored Process Web Application
executes stored processes
on behalf of a Web client and return results to a Web browser. The
SAS Stored Process Web application is similar to the SAS/IntrNet Application
Broker, and has the same general syntax and debug options.
SAS Web Administration Console
provides features for
monitoring and administering middle-tier components. This browser-based
interface enables administrators to do the following:
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view a list of users who are logged
on to SAS Web applications, and send e-mail to active users
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create, delete, and manage permissions
for folders on the SAS Content Server
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view configuration information
for each middle-tier component
stores digital content
(such as documents, reports, and images) that is created and used
by SAS Web applications. For more information, see "SAS Content Server"
in SAS Intelligence Platform: Overview.
The following documentation
is provided for the SAS Web Infrastructure Platform:
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the
SAS Information
Delivery Portal: Introduction, which provides a high-level
description of the features of the SAS Information Delivery Portal
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the
SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide, which
describes the configuration and administration tasks that are necessary
to implement Web applications (including the SAS Information Delivery
Portal) that were developed using the SAS Web Infrastructure Platform
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Developing Portlets
for the SAS Information Delivery Portal, which describes
how to use the platform to develop a portal-like Web application or
to customize or extend the functionality of the SAS Information Delivery
Portal
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help files, accessible through
the SAS Web Infrastructure Platform and SAS Information Delivery Portal's
user interface, which provide instructions for page navigation, logging
on and logging off, metadata searching, bookmarking, personalization,
and content administration