HostFront further accelerates and simplifies integration tasks using the HostFront Legacy Integrator (HFLI). The HFLI is an
IDE-integrated development tool that automatically generates application code or Web Services to expose business logic from
your existing and proven legacy applications.
The HFLI natively integrates with Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET, offering developers an advanced extension to their development
environment and significantly shortens their learning curve. It generates C# or VB.NET code through a totally visual interface,
without coding.
Among others, the HFLI offers the following features:
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View step-through recorded navigations |
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Define host application fields as temporary or global variables |
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Integrate external code within navigations |
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Define sophisticated conditional branching based on screen information |
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Build conditions expressions using the Expressions Builder |
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Edit navigations manually after they are recorded. |
The HFLI helps you to create the underlining Web Services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with ease and speed. These
Web Services can be consumed by composite applications which may or may not be running on a Windows platform.
Web Services generated with the HFLI take advantage of HostFront’s Session Pools and Session Parking features and can communicate
with the HostFront servers over persistent (TCP/IP) or non-persistent (HTTP/HTTPS) connections. They work together with the
Load Balancing and Fail-Over services to make your application highly reliable and to maximize its performance.