The Corizon Platform allows service and application owners to provide UI services as well as the more traditional logic or data services.

In practical terms it allows UI services to be built and extracted from a wide range of IT assets.  It supports a wide range of integration methods that ensure a fit with components ranging from new web services to decades old mainframes.  Integration techniques supported fall into the high level groups of 

• conventional application access methods such as APIs, databases and web services 
• direct user interface integration and re-use

Building and generating new UI services for re-use

The Corizon UI Service Builder is a plug-in to the Eclipse development environment, making it simple for a web application developer to expose components an application user interface he or she is working on as UI services. 

The UI Service Builder also supports the generation of simple UI services from WSDL to allow rapid and simple access to web service functionality from Corizon composite applications.

Extracting UI Services directly from existing application user interface

The Corizon UI Service Extractor provides an environment to define and test the non-invasive extraction of UI services from existing web application user interfaces.  This allows the user interface functionality from these applications to be re-used without the complexity or development time required to enable their functionality via APIs or web services and then develop a new UI to exercise those interfaces.

The Corizon UI Service Extractor - showing a model of a web application screen flow that has been converted to a UI Service

Integrating to host applications

UI services that leverage host applications are an important enabler of mashups in legacy environments. Corizon works with partner organisations such as Attachmate to leverage best of breed integration techniques to extract functionality from host applications in a scalable and easy to maintain fashion.

Key Benefits

• Complex UI code built and maintained centrally for broad, safe re-use.
• Simple publishing of UI functionality for re-use from familiar development tools
• Components from existing application UI leveraged immediately in new solutions without invasive integration.