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Supported clients

The SA platform supports programmers with different skills, from system administrators who write shell scripts to .NET and Java programmers familiar with the latest tools and technologies. All supported clients call the same set of methods, which are organized into the services of the SA Platform. A developer can create the following types of clients that call methods in the SA Platform API:

  • SA Command-Line Interface (CLI): Launched from Global Shell sessions, shell scripts can access the SA Platform API by invoking the CLI methods, which are executable programs in the OGFS. Each CLI method corresponds to a method in the API.
  • Web Services: Using SOAP over HTTPS, these clients send requests to SA and get responses back. The Web Services operations (defined in WSDLs) correspond to the methods in the API. Developers can write Web Services clients in popular languages such as Perl and C#.
  • Java RMI: These clients invoke remote Java objects from other Java virtual machines.
  • Pytwist: These Python programs can run on an SA Core or managed servers.

The Web Services and Java RMI clients can run on servers different than the SA Core or managed servers. The CLI methods execute in a Global Shell session on the core server where the OGFS is installed.