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SCE Technical Information: Overview

Aricent Service Creation Environment (SCE) is an easy-to-use visual Programming environment for rapidly creating features, enhanced services and applications. SCE features a sophisticated GUI environment that provides developers building blocks they can "drag-and-drop" to quickly create new services. A unique feature of the SCE is its component software architecture that allows developers to develop completely new service logic components and integrate them into the SCE application.

This allows third party developers to integrate value-added or proprietary building blocks and expose them to application developers as part of the same easy-to-use visual environment as the standard plug-in components. The fact that SCE has capability to integrate new (functionality’s) SIBs to create the standard set of plug-in components that ship with the SCE illustrates that third-party developers have the full power to customize the SCE application. Other features and benefits of the Service Creation Environment (SCE):

• Lowers Development costs
• Increases Developer Productivity
• Faster time-to-market
• Extensible component software architecture
• Easy to use, Network-Centric, Web Based Graphical Editor

With the help of SCE, complex network logic is abstracted into service components, which define data logic and call flow along with data model and data sources. These components can be used to create services, which in turn can be used as components in creating even more complex services and applications. SCE encapsulates the service specification in a cleanly defined service package. The service package is tailored to run under the SLEE environment.

Last updated : February 2, 2004