Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:27:21 -0600
Reply-To: Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
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From: Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
Subject: Re: AJAX and SAS
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Ken,
A little follow-up since I am not at NESUG or the SAS Alliance Summit and
in-between gigs.
If you have Base, IntrNet, and Share you are set for web reporting. Rely on
external technologies that are free, easy to code, and good to go. SAS R&D
has their hands full in enabling technologies that you will see in 9.2 but
there's no reason to wait. The demo was built using JavaScript and HTML.
However, I would actually use ASP.NET with the Atlas framework if I were
recommending this to a customer. They are free downloads today.
Basically, the ability to do cool things with SAS is there today and it
doesn't cost money.
Alan
Alan Churchill
Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies"
www.savian.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Barz, Ken [mailto:Ken.Barz@Intrado.com]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 5:16 PM
To: Alan Churchill; SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: RE: AJAX and SAS
See, now THAT'S the way things should be done in the SAS world. I looked at
this and then read the Integration Technologies fact sheet and was
immediately envious. We try and hold up the weight of the world here with
just base, intrnet, and share up on the server. Technology marches on I
guess, just apparently not on any SAS installation anyone has ever invested
in that I've worked on.
Pretty much every SAS job I've had has been holding together the piles of
duct tape, paperclips and layers and layers of nested macros created so
someone (usually long gone) could appear clever. Sometimes shoveling french
fries for a living seems more attractive. (Well, other than the "having
them foreclose on my house part.")
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan
Churchill
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 7:36 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: AJAX and SAS
All,
Working with Don Henderson, I have put up a demo site showing SAS data being
displayed using AJAX technology. For those unfamiliar with AJAX, it allows
for a website contents to be updated without refreshing the entire page.
The goal of this demo was to use various SAS technologies and wrap them in
AJAX functionality. On the demo site you can see AJAX working with
SAS/IntrNet, web services (surfaced via SAS/IntrNet), and Integration
Technologies. The site can be seen here:
http://demo.savian.net/Ajax/CallWebService.htm
If anyone needs consulting help with these technologies, please contact me
directly.
For more information on SAS/IntrNet and how it can be used with web services
and a whole lot more, I direct you to:
http://support.sas.com/publishing/bbu/companion_site/60282.html
Don's book will be coming out shortly entitled: Building Web Applications
with SAS/IntrNetC: A Guide to the Application Dispatcher
Thanks to Don and SAS R&D for helping this site come to fruition.
Alan
Alan Churchill
Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies"
www.savian.net <http://www.savian.net/>
