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But to make things even easier, Frontline has included ‘client-side wrappers’ for C/C++, C# and Java that make calls to the Web Service APIs identical to calls to the local SDK library, plus new (optional) client-side wrappers in PHP and JavaScript, to simplify life for Web developers working in these languages. It’s straightforward to create a ‘zero-footprint’ application that defines a model on a web page, for use in a browser or mobile phone, and solves the model using the Web Service.
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The Solver Server included with the SDK exposes a standard WSDL (Web Service Description Language) file that many programming languages and systems can use to automatically build “client-side proxy” code to call the Web Service, as if it were a local optimization or simulation library. The new Web Service API in V12.0 is based on XML and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) standards. Hence, the SDK can be used by non-programmers to “deploy” an Excel-based solution to many end users. Solving Excel Workbook Models without ExcelĪ Solver SDK Platform application can open an Excel workbook containing an optimization/simulation model, created using the standard Excel Solver or any of Frontline’s Solvers for Excel, solve it on a server without using Excel, and (new in V12.0) save the Excel workbook, updated to contain the final solution. Hence, users can work in terms meaningful for their models and applications. Solver SDK Platform offers both a conventional procedural API and a new, higher level, object-oriented API that simplifies and speeds application development – allowing the application developer to work with ‘objects’ such as a Problem, Solver, Model, Variable, and Function, writing higher level statements such as and. Object-Oriented API in Multiple Languages
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Frontline’s SDK products are Software Development Kits that bring optimization and simulation power to applications written in a wide range of programming languages, from C/C++ to PHP and JavaScript. Users can solve problems hundreds to thousands of times larger than the basic Excel Solver, at speeds anywhere from several times to hundreds of times faster, and they can solve completely new types of problems. Our Solver Server handles the heavy-duty computation, for many users at the same time.” Upward Compatible from Excel Solverįrontline’s Solvers for Excel are upward compatible from the Solver included in Excel, which Frontline developed for Microsoft, and improved in Excel 2010 for Windows and Excel 2011 for Macintosh. “SDK users can build optimization and simulation capabilities into desktop apps, server-based apps, or lightweight browser, tablet or phone-based apps.
“Solver SDK Platform V12.0 opens up a wide range of new options for analytic application development,” said Daniel Fylstra, Frontline’s President and CEO. INCLINE VILLAGE, NV – Septem– Frontline Systems’ new Solver SDK Platform V12.0, the easiest way for developers to use optimization and simulation in custom applications, offers a new, standards-based Web Service API and a built-in ‘Solver Server’ that allows users to create optimization and simulation models almost anywhere – from web browsers and mobile phones to Frontline’s own desktop Solver products – and solve them ‘over the wire’ on a local server, or in the cloud.