Distributing SAS/AF® Models with Java Clients

Given the growing acceptance of the Internet and Intranet as enterprise application mediums and the need for client-server computing using open solutions, SAS Institute has recognized the need to leverage existing SAS/AF® functionality to Java clients. This paper attempts to explain how technologies developed by SAS Institute allow clients written in Java to exploit the data and compute power of the SAS® system by accessing SAS/AF models seamlessly in a networked computing environment. We will discuss webAF®, which consists of an Integrated Development Environment and Java class libraries, that creates applications written in Java, and also how to expose new or existing SAS/AF models to Java using the Remote Object Class Factory.