Many of you have been using Forge services to good effect, whether the Forge viewer or the Data Management, Model Derivative and Design Automation APIs. There’s lots of really cool stuff you can do with Forge – we use it heavily in Dasher 360, for instance – but the existing services are largely engineered to deal with data created by existing desktop technology, i.e. they’re file-centric. The next generation of Forge web-services will help you and your customers move beyond files.
Here’s a class from last year’s Forge DevCon that gives an introduction to two key technologies in this new landscape called HFDM (for High Frequency Data Management) and the App Framework.
HFDM is the core technology we’re using to put “Data at the Center”. Rather than passing files around to try to implement disjointed workflows, data can be centralized and accessed by a variety of client applications and services:
The Forge App Framework is an environment that will greatly simplify…