Development Tools

There are a couple of different development tools used to develop, support, and customize different parts or aspects of IFS Applications. Some of which are built into IFS Applications it self and others that are supplied separately as standalone tools. Development Tools (with a few exceptions) are only available to customers/partners who has acquired a development license for IFS Applications (often in combination with licensing the source code). Such licenses can be be limited to certain parts, technologies, or tools. This means that the development tools listed below are not available to all IFS customers. Furthermore, even if the tools are available you might not be allowed to modify, adapt, or add things to IFS Applications without the appropriate licensing.

Development Tools for IFS Applications include

• IFS Developer Studio - used to model and develop server and middle tier code, including PL/SQL code, integrations, Biz APIs and more.
• IFS Application Forms Developer - functionality that plugs into Microsoft Visual Studio and support development of IFS Enterprise Explorer clients
• IFS Report Designer - used to develop report layouts for operational reports.

In addition to development tools (that typically produce some sort of source code output), there's extensive configuration support built into IFS Applications. This means that it's possible to tweak/customize the behavior of IFS Applications without actually doing any development (in the sense of modifying source code).