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SAS® AppDev Studio™

A comprehensive environment for cost-effectively developing superior business intelligence applications and solutions

SAS AppDev Studio is an application development product that supports the creation of Java applications that leverage the back-end business intelligence and analytics power of the SAS server. It offers a uniquely broad range of capabilities for quickly and cost-effectively developing applications in a variety of languages and platform choices.

Benefits

  • Develop intelligence applications cost-effectively, without risk.
  • Develop intelligence applications faster.

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Features

  • Standalone application development environment
  • Flexibility to develop multiple types of applications
  • Java components to use SAS and facilitate development
  • Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
  • Powerful set of quick-start templates

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Powerful, interactive wizards hide the complexities of Java programming, and quick-start templates help reduce development time.


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Benefits

  • Develop intelligence applications cost-effectively, without risk. Using SAS AppDev Studio, developers don't risk hindering production because they don't need to involve production systems in the development cycle. Nor do they require expensive hardware to mimic production. Instead, they can build and test applications on their desktop PCs or laptops.
  • Develop intelligence applications faster. SAS AppDev Studio includes a rich set of ready-to-use Java components and APIs that can be leveraged from SAS AppDev Studio Eclipse Plug-ins (which are included with the software) or from a third-party Java IDE. These powerful conveniences help reduce development time.

Features

Standalone application development environment
  • You get everything you need to develop, on one box, applications that use the power of SAS.
  • You can develop applications on a local machine, whether you are connected to the network or not.
Flexibility to develop multiple types of applications
  • Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) Web applications.
  • CGI/HTML applications using the SAS/IntrNet development license that is included.
  • Full-client applications using Java, the SAS DATA step, SAS Component Language, Visual Basic, C++, C# and more.
Java components to use SAS and facilitate development
  • InformationBeans TM  encapsulate access to the informational and analytic power of SAS servers.
  • TransformationBeans consume data from existing data models and transform it into different representations.
  • Foundation services classes serve ready-to-use functionality such as publishing information or running analytic processes.
  • SAS JSP custom tag library allows coding using HTML-like tags; no Java code is needed.
Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
  • Development environment is based on the industry-leading open source Eclipse platform.
  • Intelligent editing capabilities provide real-time syntax-error highlighting and automatic name, method and keyword completion.
  • Graphical user interfaces and powerful wizards hide complex Java programming.
  • Source code control system facilitates team-based development.
  • Enhanced build support uses Jakarta Ant to develop, package and deploy applications.
Powerful set of quick-start templates
  • Wizard-driven templates facilitate creating portlets. Portlets can be automatically packaged and deployed into the SAS Information Delivery Portal.
  • Wizard-driven templates facilitate creating SAS Management Console plug-ins. Plug-ins can be automatically packaged into JAR files.
  • Set of templates for building SAS Web applications are included.

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Powerful, interactive wizards hide the complexities of Java programming, and quick-start templates help reduce development time.

Powerful, interactive wizards hide the complexities of Java programming, and quick-start templates help reduce development time.  

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SAS AppDev Studio templates assist with the development of custom portlets

SAS AppDev Studio templates assist with the development of custom portlets, SAS Management Console Plug-ins, SAS Data Integration Studio Plug-ins, Web-based reporting and OLAP solutions.  

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The SAS AppDev Studio Eclipse plug-ins support SAS application developers.

The SAS AppDev Studio Eclipse plug-ins support SAS application developers who use the open source Eclipse IDE or a third-party IDE based on the Eclipse platform.  

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System Requirements

Development Environment

The minimum requirements for developing enterprise applications with SAS AppDev Studio version 3.4.1 include:

Supported Platforms
  • Microsoft Windows (x86-32): Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista*, Windows 7**
  • Microsoft Windows (x64): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows 7** for x64
Required Development Software
  • Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers 3.6.2 or higher

Deployment/Production Server Environment

Web Server
  • IBM WebSphere 7.0.0.13 on: AIX, Linux x64, Solaris (SPARC and x64), Windows x64, z/OS
  • JBoss 4.3 on: AIX, HP/UX on Itanium, Linux x64, Solaris (SPARC and x64), Windows x64
  • Oracle WebLogic 10gr3 and 11gr1 on: AIX, HP/UX on Itanium, Linux x64, Solaris (SPARC an x64), Windows x64
Application Server/Servlet Engine
  • Application servers and servlet engines require a full Java Software Development Kit (JDK). See the list of Java Development Kits required by supported application servers.

SAS® Server

Required Software
  • Base SAS® 9.3

For a list of specific third-party software requirements for deploying applications developed in SAS AppDev Studio 3.4.1, see Third-Party Software for SAS 9.3 Foundation. This document includes information about supported operating systems, Web servers, application servers, Web browsers, Java Development Kits and Java Runtime Environments for SAS software.

In addition to the system requirements listed above, SAS AppDev Studio 3.4.1 Eclipse Plug-ins also require the minimum Java release required by Eclipse. Check the Eclipse site for specific information about minimum Java release required for a specific version of the operating system.

SAS AppDev Studio is bundled with a development license of SAS Integration Technologies, which provides SAS Foundation Services, SAS BI Web Services, and other software to support your custom development with SAS AppDev Studio.

Supported Platforms
  • HP/UX on Itanium: 11iv3 (11.31)
  • HP/UX on PA-RISC: 11iv3 (11.31)
  • IBM AIX: 6.1 and 7.1 on POWER architectures
  • IBM z/OS: V1R10 and higher
  • Linux 32-bit (x86-32): Novell SuSE 10 and 11; RHEL 5 and 6
  • Linux x64 (x86-64): Novell SuSE 10 and 11; RHEL 5 and 6
  • Microsoft Windows (x86-64): Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista *, Windows 7**, Windows Server 2003 family, Windows Server 2008 family
  • Microsoft Windows on x64 (x86-64): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows 7** for x64, Windows Server 2003 family for x64, Windows Server 2008 family for x64
  • Solaris on SPARC: Version 10 Update 8
  • Solaris on x64 (x64-86): Version 10 Update 8

Client Environment

The end user computing environment in the client tier requires the following minimum standards to run Java applications built with SAS AppDev Studio:

To execute Java applications:

Supported Platforms
  • Any operating system that supports the required level of the Java Runtime Environment
Java Runtime Environment
  • Java SE 6 Update 24 or higher

To view servlets and JSP pages:

Supported Platforms
  • Any operating system that has a Web browser, including wireless devices
Web Browsers
  • Internet Explorer 7 and 8: Windows Vista* (32-bit and x64), Windows 7** (32-bit and x64), Windows XP Professional (32-bit and x64)
  • Firefox 3.6: Windows Vista* (32-bit and x64), Windows 7** (32-bit and x64), Windows XP Professional (32-bit and x64), Linux 32-bit, Linux x64

* NOTE: Windows Vista supported editions are Enterprise, Business and Ultimate.
** NOTE: Windows 7 supported editions are Enterprise, Professional and Ultimate.

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