Summary: Which development tool?
Date: 22 Apr 1994 18:40:07 GMT
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PRODUCT: ART*Enterprise.
CHARACTERISTICS ART*Enterprise is a client server development tool. It has a front end interfase builder which users can use to build windows front-end via point-and-click. ART*Enterprise is available on MS Windows, Unix, OS/2 and Macintosh. Supports many ODBC compliance database such as Sybase, Informix, SQLServer, etc. It has the added feature of a rule base and CASE based inference engine.
PRODUCT: ENCINA FOR WINDOWS. CHARACTERISTICS Encina combine the benefits of a distributed, client/server architecture with the business-critical of OLTP systems. Encina for Windows can be used with powerful PC products such as Microsoft's Visual Basic and Visual C++, PowerBuilder from Powersoft and JAM from JYACC to create graphical, Windows-based Encina clients that securely access Encina applications server.
The Encina products provide the facilities for developing deploying large-scale distributed and client/server applications. The Encina products family includes the Encina Core Services (Toolkit), the Encina Monitor, the Encina Structures File Server (SFS), the Encina Recoverable Queueing Service (RQS) and the Encina Peer-to-Peer Communications Service (PPC).
PRODUCT'S ILOG
- ILOG BUILDER
- ILOG VIEWS
- ILOG DB LINK
- ILOG BROKER
VIEWS is an advanced C++ library for building interactive, graphic-interactive applications. Also, is based on a Object-Oriented architecture which separates visual aspects from objects behavior to provide you with class reusability and programming flexibility. VIEWS offers standards features such as double buffering, quadtrees, saving/restoring objects from portable ASCII files, and communicating through sockets or PC with external processes.
DB LINK is a C++ library which integrates C++ applications and relational databases, supports transactions management, data manipulation, and access to the dictionary. DB LINK is capable to supporting multiple database systems simultaneously. Also supports BLOBS for multi-media.
BROKER is a C++ software component to implement distributed, client/server, and groupware applications.
Typical applications include:
Applications where several different processes are simultaneously
active.
Executive information system where the same data is represented in
several different graphical views.
Technical documentation.
Command and control applications where objects are distributed.
moreover provides the following benefits:
Full C++ compatibility, simplicity, fast development cycle, reliability, portability and standards.
and provides three functionality levels:
Distributed C++, active values, object coherence.
PRODUCT: Interface Builder with DBkit.
CHARACTERISTICS Next's development environment is highly recommends, especially the GUI and object-oriented support. DBKit is great for database independence and for easy development of simple applications, but really break down for complex OO programs, however on the market exists the Access Kit from VNP software, which uses the low level DBKit features to the independence. Access Kit provide a much better foundation for object-oriented database clients.
Nextstep's object-oriented architecture is what made the development and maintenance efforts so attractive compared with everything else on the market.
Nextstep's Objective-C language combines the performance of C with the flexibility of Smalltalk to provide a very nice development environment that offer good performance as well.
PRODUCT: OpenUI.
CHARACTERISTICS OpenUI is a user interface management system.
OpenUI has:
GUI builder for interactive layout and editing of UI.
Runs on many GUI platforms.
Has object oriented graphics.
Completely native look and feel.
Quick and powerful GUI development.
Message oriented API for C, C++, Pascal and COBOL.
GUI coding is done in a specially designed OO language.
Allows you to generate your own UI classes and following in house
standards.
Include help system.
Client server for MS Window PC's.
No royalties.
PRODUCT: UNIFY VISION. CHARACTERISTICS UNIFY VISION is a multiple database cross-platform, object-oriented, GUI development system that allows you to develop fully functional database access applications anywhere (UNIX, MS Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh), and deploy them everywhere.
If additional functionality is need, the VISION 4GL script is very powerful, with the ability to incorporate 3GL or external functions into 4GL.
An applications has the ability, through HDA (Heterogeneous Database Access), to access tables from multiples data sources at the same time. Received on Fri Apr 22 1994 - 20:40:07 CEST