SAS Web Infrastructure Kit

The SAS Web Infrastructure Kit, which is provided with SAS Integration Technologies, serves as the underlying infrastructure for the SAS Information Delivery Portal Web application.

The SAS Web Infrastructure Kit includes the following components:

• a Web application shell that renders content in portlets and pages and that provides log-on and log-off capabilities, metadata searching, bookmarking, and content administration features

• a SAS Stored Process application that enables running stored processes from the Web

• predefined portlets for content viewing and navigation

• a portlet development kit, which includes an API and a set of best practices, for developing custom portlets

• administrative tools for deploying services, portlets, themes, and additional Web applications

• SAS Java components, Web infrastructure components, and a services infrastructure

If the SAS Information Delivery Portal is installed, then the following additional capabilities are provided:

• personalization features which enable users to create and modify their own pages and portlets to meet individual needs

• the ability to subscribe to publication channels and publish content to channels or WebDAV

• support for running SAS Stored Processes in the background and receiving alert messages when processes are finished

• support for syndicated, continuously updated Web content from information providers

• the ability to access SAS information maps using the portal, if your organization has installed SAS Information Map Studio

• the ability to access SAS reports using the portal, if your organization has installed SAS Web Report Viewer

The following documentation is provided for the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit:

• the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit: Overview, which provides a high-level description of the features of the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit and the SAS Information Delivery Portal

• Portal Web Application Administration in 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 Kit

• the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit: Developer's Guide, which describes how to use the kit to develop a portal-like Web application or to customize or extend the functionality of the SAS Information Delivery Portal

• help files, accessible through the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit 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