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The current generation of AFS products is built on technology that takes advantage of all recent advances in software tools, networking and communications to bring disparate facilities and entities together.
The new AFS products, built on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), provides efficiencies not previously available and, above all, flexibility to connect to, and interact with, other systems regardless of platform or technologies.
AFS products provide the long awaited technology shift that enables collaborative commerce, functional improvements and monitoring across the value chains. Additionally the products will provide a user friendly interface meeting latest industry standards.
AFS Product Architecture
A Service-Oriented Architecture is defined as self-contained services that can be mixed and matched, with platform independence, and can be located and invoked from different locations. Thus, systems are no longer limited to the application set as designed by the developer; no longer limited to the confines of the individual system; no longer restricted to direct users, connected desktop clients, or enterprise boundaries.
In addition to SOA, AFS is improving the building blocks of its products by using .NET framework for development. The new .NET software development tools and the standards-based nature of managed code make it easier to develop systems that employ state of the art connectivity techniques such as XML, Web Services. This is important to customer as custom changes can be completed faster, at lower cost and with fewer errors than traditional programming tools
AFS uses .NET as it comes with a blueprint and toolset for the next generation of software for the new "connected world." AFS implementation of SOA architecture is shown below
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