SAS Foundation Services

Provides an overview of the SAS Foundation Services.

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Description

Packages

com.sas.iom	The Java Workspace Factory and I/O Stream helper classes.
com.sas.iom.orb	The IOM ORB Framework and Utilities.
com.sas.net
com.sas.net.brg.orb	IOM Bridge for Java
com.sas.net.connect	SAS/CONNECT driver for Java
com.sas.net.rmi	The com.sas.net.rmi package provides networking components dealing with Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
com.sas.net.sharenet	SAS/SHARE driver for JDBC
com.sas.net.ssl	The com.sas.net.ssl package provides networking components dealing with Java remote objects and a capability to secure their RMI communications using the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) API.
com.sas.rio	The SAS IOM Driver for JDBC
com.sas.services	SAS Foundation Services.
com.sas.services.connection	Service for making and managing connections to IOM servers.
com.sas.services.connection.jndi	JNDI connection services.
com.sas.services.connection.omr	Provides a connection factory configuation for use with a SAS Metadata Server.
com.sas.services.connection.platform	Provides a connection factory configuation for use with SAS Foundation Services.
com.sas.services.deployment	This subsystem provides utilities to deploy and lookup SAS Foundation Services.
com.sas.services.deployment.ioc	This subsystem provides a utility to create and customize a deployment descriptor file for inversion of control containers.
com.sas.services.discovery	Discover a service based upon its service capabilities and optionally service attributes.
com.sas.services.events	Top-level package for event services that contains an EventFactory that can be used to create events to send to an EventBroker service for processing.
com.sas.services.events.broker	Broker events that are triggered by various transport protocols.
com.sas.services.events.broker.flowengine	Run process flows and dispatch listener applications.
com.sas.services.events.broker.monitor	Listen for incoming events to process.
com.sas.services.events.discovery	Locate event brokers.
com.sas.services.information	Interact with data repositories on behalf of client applications.
com.sas.services.information.browse	Information service metadata browsing.
com.sas.services.information.metadata	Information Service metadata.
com.sas.services.information.metadata.dataexplorer
com.sas.services.information.metadata.dav	Information Service WebDAV metadata.
com.sas.services.information.metadata.etl
com.sas.services.information.metadata.favorites	Manages favorites folders and their contents.
com.sas.services.information.metadata.lookup
com.sas.services.information.metadata.lookup.actions
com.sas.services.information.metadata.lookup.io
com.sas.services.information.metadata.lookup.security.crypto
com.sas.services.information.metadata.lookup.utils
com.sas.services.information.metadata.olap
com.sas.services.information.metadata.prompt	Information Service prompt model.
com.sas.services.information.publicobject	Public Objects are Information Service objects which represent SAS information which is rooted in metadata.
com.sas.services.information.search	The com.sas.services.information.search package performs and manages metadata searches for public objects.
com.sas.services.information.util	Information service utilities.
com.sas.services.logging	Send runtime messages to one or more output destinations.
com.sas.services.logging.util	Logging Service utilities.
com.sas.services.mgmt	A listener may be registered with a SAS Foundation Service to be notified of service life cycle events.
com.sas.services.publish	Publish services.
com.sas.services.publish.alerts	Publish service alerts.
com.sas.services.publish.archive	Publish service archive.
com.sas.services.publish.metadata	Publish Service metadata.
com.sas.services.publish.requester	Publish Service requester.
com.sas.services.publish.tools	Publish utilities.
com.sas.services.publish.webdav	Publishing capabilities for a WebDAV client.
com.sas.services.security	Perform Authentication against modular authentication providers with user identities.
com.sas.services.session	Session services.
com.sas.services.storedprocess	Execute stored processes.
com.sas.services.storedprocess.metadata	Create and modify stored process metadata and obtain stored process service objects from metadata.
com.sas.services.user	Maintain user identities and profiles.
com.sas.services.util	Utility classes used by Foundation Services.
com.sas.services.webdav	Provides a client API for accessing WebDAV servers.

Provides an overview of the SAS Foundation Services.

Overview

An overview is provided below for each SAS Foundation Service.

• Connection
• Discovery
• Event
• Event Broker
• Event Broker Discovery
• Information
• Logging
• Publish
• Security
• Session
• Stored Process
• User
• Web DAV

SAS Management Console Plug-ins

The following plug-ins to the SAS Management Console are used to manage configuration data used by foundation services. The foundation services installer provides an option to install these plug-ins into the SAS Management Console. View the plug-ins' online help for further details.

Plug-in	Purpose
Foundation Services Manager	Manages foundation services deployment configurations
Publishing Framework	Manages SAS Integration Technologies publish-subscribe metadata including channels and subscribers
Application Monitor	Provides a console for viewing application logs

Deploying Foundation Services

After a foundation service deployment has been created using the Foundation Services Manager plug-in to the SAS Management Console, an application may then instantiate the service deployment. The service deployment utilities also provide a remote client to lookup a service deployment that has been deployed in another JVM.

Firewall Deployment

If a Foundation Services application needs to be accessed by an external client through a firewall, then one may configure the services to use a well-known port instead of an anonymous port.

-Dcom.sas.net.rmi.platformPort=<portNumber>	Non-SSL RMI socket factories
-Dcom.sas.net.ssl.platformPort=<SSLPortNumber>	SSL RMI socket factories

Securing Access to Remote Services using SSL

SAS Foundation Services may be configured to be deployed in a manner which allows their services to be accessed by a client application running in another JVM. Access to these services may be secured by configuring your application to enable use of SSL RMI socket factories provided by the SAS Core Net API. Refer to the com.sas.net.ssl Javadoc for additional details.