Nexaweb adds app development manager to Enterprise Studio
October 28, 2008 —
Nexaweb Technologies has added an application management feature with Eclipse capabilities to its flagship software suite.
Nexaweb Enterprise Studio 5.0, announced today, is a J2EE-based platform with a rich Internet application (RIA) framework written on the front end. Bob Buffone, Nexaweb’s chief architect, said that though the platform is written in Java, the company also supplies a Dojo-based version for AJAX development.
A major new feature in Enterprise Studio 5.0 is Application Manager, which includes Eclipse 3.3 and Nexaweb’s dojo.E extensions toolkit. The toolkit allows users to create enterprise Web applications without knowing JavaScript. Buffone said Nexaweb built out a workspace manager that lets users configure applications with an application definition file.
“If you think about it in terms of Eclipse development, they have a plug-in file that defines the actions and menus of a particular plug-in,” said Buffone. “That makes it very easy to build modular applications because I can plug in different functionality into the overall system. This is kind of the starting point for doing that, and a page will have different actions, and a developer won’t have to do any work of, ‘When this page is displayed, I want to have a save button or delete button’ inside the menu bar.”
Enterprise Studio 5.0 lets multiple users simultaneously work on the same code, and it also has an adaptable style sheet so companies can maintain their brand’s look when changing an application portfolio. There are also additional widgets and user interface improvements.
With big players in the RIA market like Adobe and Microsoft (with its Silverlight platform), Nexaweb said it tries to position itself as a creator of complex applications. “Our customers don’t develop traditional dashboard applications,” said Jonathan Daly, Nexaweb’s director of worldwide marketing. “With dashboard applications, if you have a lot of graphs and you just want to simply display data, there’s a lot of products that do that. But when you’re building custom applications and you need a lot of screen presentation, those applications are best run in Nexaweb because of our rich client technology."
Nexaweb also created the Nexaweb Reference Framework, a reusable reference product that helps customers modernize their application portfolios by applying best practices. It offers a view of applications, using navigation and menus, object relational mapping, messaging, Web services, and database protocols. The company claimed that this lets developers focus more on business needs.
“The Reference Framework takes all the core fundamental pieces of the Nexaweb product—the messaging and rich client—and makes it very easy for people to simply marshal their business objects to the client side so they can do different design patterns of data integration,” Buffone said.
Enterprise Studio 5.0 and the Reference Framework will be available in mid December, the company said
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