Above All Studio decreases the time
and cost required to develop new solutions. Visual tools,
simplified models of available software services and a
repository-based architecture make it easy for users to
identify available services and then put those services
to use solving business problems. The Above All suite
offers the following capabilities:
Wizard-driven application assembly.
Wizards guide users through the process of building
composite applications. Users select object types and
operations in the Application Dictionary baseline user
interfaces are automatically created using specified style
sheets appropriate for the task. Using join and merge
capabilities, Above All Studio relates together disparate
services to create a complete business solution. If needed,
the user interface can then be tailored with a familiar
palette of form designer tools. For particularly advanced
needs, users can employ Above All Studio's scripting capability.
Model Your Web Services. To help disparate
applications easily work together, Above All provides visual
tools to capture and refine the interoperability properties
of your Web and other software services, including the
relationships between services. In addition, low level
services can be abstracted into more useful higher level
services. These working “models” of existing resources
facilitate the rapid assembly of composite applications.
Repository-based. The Application
Dictionary is a repository that stores the meta data about
the cataloged software services making them easy to find,
use and share. The Application Dictionary also stores
the composite applications created and used through Above
All Studio. These repositories can be shared or private
and exist locally or be server-based.
Security and deployment. The resulting
composite applications can be saved for either private
or shared use. Above All composite applications respect
the security employed by the source information resources
and Above All manages user authentication and credentials;
access to available composite applications is based on
role permissions. Users access the deployed applications
through Microsoft Internet Explorer or Above All Runner.
