OpenCloud Offers Open Apps Dev Tool

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. -- OpenCloud, the telecoms software provider, today announced the launch of Visual Service Architect (VSA), a graphical development environment for JAIN SLEE that dramatically simplifies the design and implementation of applications for fixed and mobile networks. Used in conjunction with OpenCloud’s Rhino Telecom Application Server and Charging Sentinel, VSA provides telecoms application developers with graphical visualisations of core application elements. Those elements can then be modified to extend and maintain existing services, or to build entirely new applications with automated code production.

This framework provides operators with more freedom to develop new concepts in-house and deploy or modify services rapidly, at a much lower cost. VSA demonstrates OpenCloud’s on-going commitment to provide operators with greater independence, choice and opportunity for innovation. It is a free, open and standards-based tool that can be used alongside other OpenCloud or third party developer tools.

Developing applications for telecoms has traditionally required specialist skills and while JAIN SLEE is an excellent technology for real-time execution of applications written in the widely adopted Java language, there has previously been a lack of tools to simplify development. VSA allows developers to easily visualise an entire application represented as a collection of on-screen elements - graphical ‘building blocks’ – that automatically generate trustworthy code for a large proportion of the intended application. The building blocks take much of the hard work out of the development process; helping developers visualise the application without having to interpret thousands of lines of code.

OpenCloud Ltd.