FOST.3™ Overview

Class libraries for:
- Content management including a wiki and threaded discussions (forums).
- News and syndication.
- Invoicing and billing class libraries.
- Address book and contact management.
A UML compiler which:
- Builds a Microsoft SQL database with the required boot strap meta-data.
- Writes a C++ layer (for Microsoft Visual C++™ including project and solution files) which talks to the database.
- Writes a COM layer so that the system can be used by scripting languages.
- Web page interection for manipulating the data (configurable through the web interface).
Security:
- Users can be fully defined in the database or in the Windows Active Directory.
- Role based permissioning.
- Ownership and named user permissions.
An ISAPI filter that creates:
- Pages from the wiki, discussions etc.
- Web pages to add, edit and remove data in the database.
- User login and tracking.
Libraries include:
- Role based permissioning (and users defined either in the database, or more securely in the Windows Active Directory).
- Application and user settings.
- Correct Unicode handling of strings and files.
- Common date and time handling.
- Many features for using SQL servers as persistent object stores.
- XHTML generation.
- Geolocation.