Language of SC

[Jones]

Does anyone know what language ServiceCenter is written in. I am not a programmer and poeple always ask me that question and I just stand there with a blank expression on my face looking kinda dumb,......

[tommy]

Probably C or somthing similar.

It is deveoped in the framework Eclipse.

http://www.eclipse.org/

[glg]

when you're asked that question, people probably want to know what language the stuff you do is in.

Which is always a tough question. I just say it's proprietary.

[Jones]

thanks guys,.....

I'm prepared for the next time someone asks,....., :0)

[benvargas]

If you are doing tailoring within ServiceCenter then it would likely be Peregrine's (HP's) proprietary Rapid Application Development (RAD) scripting/coding language.

That being said, with the release of ServiceCenter 6.x tailoring can be done in JavaScript which is based on the Mozilla SpiderMonkey (JavaScript-C) engine:
http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/

As far as I know the core application is a C or C++ binary however obviously the new Eclipse client is based on the Eclipse architecture.

[kobear]

The binary layer on the server side is written in ANSI C. This is the lowest common denominator between all the platforms that SC is deployed on. This is especially true of 5.x and prior, but has changed somewhat for 6.x +.

While the majority of the binary layer is remains the ANSI C legacy code, many of the features required by the Esclipse client (such as natively communicating with the server via SOAP, as opposed to express on 12680, for example) are not possible without major coding in ANSI C. So, parts were written in Java. This is why the MVS support was dropped - no easy SOAP on the mainframe.

The client is of course platform specific. The application layer remains RAD.

HTH