Take a closer look at EpioBusiness Server's Application Services.

Workspaces
EpioBusiness Server Workspaces are similar to the 'pages' in any web application, except they use unique services and will always have an execution context based on the current user, session and application.

Components
Components are accessed easily through the component manager, which installs, registers, runs and manages the business components available to the application. The Component API is also exposed via this service.

Data Sources/Databases
This service deals with all information regarding the connection with any databases or data sources required by the application. Secure connection objects can be created to allow data access from code. As with components the Service can be configured to reference different Databases without requiring changes to the application Code.

File System Management
This service provides a completely isolated virtual file system to each application. Developers need not be concerned with the physical or web locations of files located within this file system. Administrators can manage storage capacity with no interference to development teams.

Roles and Privileges
Privileges represent user permissions within a specific application (such as deleting or creating files). The Roles and Privileges service manages the set of privileges required by each application. They are managed in an environment free of context as far as the developer is concerned. Roles can also be created to organise sets of privileges by function, such as Sales Representative and Sales Manager.

Options
The options service allows a Developer to quickly produce a customisable administration interface for their application. This administration interface may be used by the application Administrator to configure any aspect of the application's behaviour for which the developer has provided support.

Logging
The Logging service allows Developers to log certain application-specific events in a managed database. The developer can create and categorise as many context-free log entry types as are required.

Message Store
The Message Store service provides a managed message library for each application. Messaging can be used to manage the textual content of applications such as help, instructions, errors or just general content.

Interface Elements
This is a collection of services for dealing with managed presentation layer objects. It includes libraries for managing dHTML elements and other layout features.

Security
In addition to System Services Security, application Security Services are provided for application-specific security. Access user and group based and individual Workspace access may be restricted based on the user security level. Internally, applications may use Roles and Privileges services to restrict access to functionality to any desired level of granularity.

Web Services
Together with an XML-driven architecture, the Epiowave environment offers component business services. These services may have been developed onsite, or they may exist on any server on the web and have been registered with the system as accessible Web Services. The services carry out a certain piece of business logic and the Developer needs only to know the location and parameters involved.

Extendable Developer Toolkit
Simple APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) allow developers to handle complex operations using simple references to inbuilt logic.

Learn more about the other products in the Epiowave product suite: EpioDesigner and EpioBuilder, or take the online tour to find out how they act together to make it easier and faster for you to develop Enterprise Applications and Web Services.