The jNetX Telecom Service Studio (TSS) is the Service Creation Environment provided with the jNetX Convergent Service Platform. This is a service development environment (design, development, testing and integration) providing a variety of workspaces, reusable software components, and tools for the application developer and network integrator. Different workspaces have been developed to cater to the needs of different user groups based on their level of technical expertise:
- Non-experts: members of this group do not have programming experience using complex telecommunication protocols.
- Developers: comprising professional developers and network engineers who have deep knowledge of telecommunications or Java.
- Integrators: responsible for integrating the platform, integrating new protocols (resource adapters) and maintaining carrier class Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for the entire solution including the platform and applicable services.
The TSS includes a set of tools as described below:
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To create applications
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To integrate protocols and service enablers
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The Application Designer (AD) SCE
The TSS AD allows service designers to build applications by drag & dropping and assembling functional icons together. Java experts are also free to use plain Java.
The Icon (ABB) Designer
The TSS Icon Designer allows the creation of icons (functional components) that can be used within the Application Designer. Icons can be created by any user, and can access core features of the jNetX platform (e.g. access to signaling information like control a call or session, send an SMS to a User, retrieve a subscriber location, etc.).
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The Resource Adaptor SDK
The Resource Adaptor SDK allows the creation and customization of JAIN SLEE Resource Adaptors to integrate specific protocols/APIs into the JAIN SLEE environment.
The Web Services SDK
The Web Services SDK is a powerful tool to quickly create Web Services. It allows the jNetX platform to expose a Web Service interface and to be invoked by external Web Services or business processes over HTTP/SOAP. When invoked over Web Services, jNetX can translate the SOAP request into a Network execution, handling pure Network protocols. As an example, this tool is used by jNetX to build and customize its programmable Parlay X gateway. On the client side, this SDK also allows to build the necessary elements to invoke external Web Services, acting as a Web Services client.
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To test applications:
The Network Emulation Environment (NEE)
The NEE emulates real network activity to test services in a particular environment. It is a flexible tool that allows developers to create specific scripts (test cases) and run load testing.
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