FreeBalance Platform Technology
The FreeBalance Platform is the enabling technology for developing web-based public financial management solutions. These solutions deliver applications on web browsers using Java application servers.
Platform Highlights - Designer Module, Eclipse plug-in
- Government Financial Management- design reusable components from the FreeBalance Accountability Suite, such as Chart of Accounts (COA), commitments, aggregate budgetary controls and vouchers.
- Web Services Support - exposes business components as web services to other applications and integrates with web services from these applications.
- Data Model Abstraction - maps data easily to web services, databases, electronic forms, flat files and documents through a logical data model.
- Workflow - drag-and-drop workflow components and business rule configuration using property sheets.
- Extensibility - supports Java, JavaScript and BeanShell for customization.
- Security - integrates with user, group and role security models.
Platform Highlights - Server
- Plug-in Architecture - simplifies integration with different database, electronic forms, documents, workflow languages, access control and portal technology.
- Case Management Portal - supports end users through adaptable case or task management portal.
- Engines - scalable workflow, business rule and reporting engines.
Open Standards and Open-Source Technologies
- Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) - the FreeBalance Platform is built on Java EE, the industry standard for developing robust and secure server-side applications. Within the Java EE environment, business components are created, adapted and reused in a services-oriented architecture (SOA) and exposed as web services. http://java.sun.com/javaee/
- Eclipse - the FreeBalance Platform Designer module is built on Eclipse, a vendor-neutral open development plug-in based framework. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits. www.eclipse.org
Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox compatible
Supported Standards
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Java Porlet Specification (JSR-168), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Web Services Inspection Language (WSIL), XForms, XML Process Definition Language (XPDL), Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
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