Benefits of 'SoftwareAssetManagement' Feature Line

Description

The SoftwareAssetManagement feature line is included in each license with an active subscription to the BASIS Software Asset Management (SAM) plan. See Software Asset Management (SAM) for more details about the SAM plan. The SAM plan includes the following benefits:

  • Assists BBj developers and end users.

  • Generates automatically during registration.

  • BLS automatically attempts to re-register the license as this feature expires.

  • Enables the use of virtual licenses installed on virtual BLS servers.

  • Enables the use of Eclipse Temurin (OpenJDK) JDKs 11 and beyond.

  • Allows full functionality of the BBJasper Utility.

  • Monitors all write and remove operations that occur on one or more files or directories. See Asynchronous Triggers.

  • Monitors write or remove operations made to one or more data files accessed by the application. See Data Change Auditing.

  • Facilitates the visualization of data via dashboard widgets that may contain a variety of information. See Dashboard Utility.

  • Generates BBj object-oriented code to create, manage, and display a Widget, Widget Set, or Widget Dashboard. See Widget Wizard.

  • Implements full text searching and indexing. See FULLTEXT File Type and SQL FULLTEXT Indices.

  • Enables BBj Database and File Replication to local and/or remote machines. See Replication.

  • Adds the option to set the BBjHtmlView control to use a Chromium engine (if available); in this configuration, BBjHtmlView is a complete web browser, with support for HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. See CHROMIUM_HTMLVIEW in STBL Formats - BBj.

  • Provides the ability to create Web Services from custom classes.

  • Provides much greater flexibility in deploying and controlling access to web applications with the jetty.xml config file. See the BASIS Advantage article Don’t Put All of Your Jetty Eggs in One Context.

  • Allows you to establish Professional Services contracts.

Sample licenseinfo Output

If the SoftwareAssetManagement feature line is available, the feature will appear in the output of the licenseinfo Utility, as shown in the example output below:

BBX629073 SOFTWAREASSETMANAGEMENT 25.0 2026-03-31T23:59:59-06 5

See Also

BASIS License Service (BLS) Overview

BASIS Licensing Overview

Software Asset Management (SAM)