Rapid application development platform

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I am looking for Rapid application development platform (for quick development of custom warehouse system) with next features:
- primary for building classic desktop clients, not only web-based, because of problems with catching many events (Keypress etc.) in browser or embedded browser.
- automatic data binding to forms, user friendly designer for database relations, forms gui, authorisation/roles system. Only business logic, validators, transformation and events should be realised by code (I prefer Java).
- application server and possibly data server included.
- I really need system like "Servoy data broadcasting" - every change in database via one client is immediatly projected to other clients. Simple handler for transactions also needed.

I tried some products, (Servoy[^] - only web-based client with many limitation in view development, RapidClipse[^] - very fresh, also only web-based client, no documentation by now. I formerly worked with Visual Foxpro, PHP...

Posted 26-Jan-16 5:44am

Rike-cz

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Jan-16 11:51am

It all depends on platform, languages to be used, the type of the software to be develop. And I always recommend to be careful with RAD methods; they are not always (by far, not always) adequate to the job.
—SA

Rike-cz 27-Jan-16 1:45am

I know that, but I need some examples to make research and find the way.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Jan-16 1:57am

If you know that, act accordingly. I still don't know your platform, languages, etc. What can we possibly talk about?
—SA

Rike-cz 27-Jan-16 4:13am

Some of that, I indicate on my first post. Up to the present I worked with PHP, Visual FoxPro etc., so this skills are not useable (except for common OOP, MVC...). I know something about Java (older versions), so I prefer Java platforms. Everything else I will learn.
Product, what I want to develop (multi-client warehouse LAN system), should be easily make in Visual FoxPro Builder, but VFP has no future. So I am looking for something, which helps develop applications as easily as RAD with previously declared features.

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srvypro · Answer 1 · 2016-01-27T02:30:00

Solution 1

Servoy also offers a native client on Windows, Linux and Mac.

What do you mean with limitation in view development ?

Posted 27-Jan-16 2:30am

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Rike-cz 27-Jan-16 8:45am

I am not sure, if is it native client using SWT/Swing or "only" embbed browser. But what about classic horizontal menu?

srvypro · Answer 2 · 2016-01-28T01:14:00

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Servoy's native client is a thin client based on Java Swing. It is thin in the sense that it can be deployed over the internet without the need of RDP. It can run client/server: server can be based anywhere or even stand alone (runtime client). Classic menu's are definitely possible with the smart client.

Posted 28-Jan-16 1:14am

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Rike-cz 28-Jan-16 7:24am

Any link for how to build custom horizontal menu for smart client?

srvypro 29-Jan-16 5:41am

It's part of the window plugin. Docs are here: https://wiki.servoy.com/display/public/DOCS/window

An example:
// create a new window
var win = application.createWindow("windowName", JSWindow.WINDOW);
// show a form in the new window
forms.my_form.controller.show(win);
// retrieve the menubar of the new window
var menubar = plugins.window.getMenuBar("windowName");
// add a new menu to the menubar, with an item in it
var menu = menubar.addMenu();
menu.text = "New Menu";
menu.addMenuItem("an entry", feedback);
// retrieve the menubar of the main window
var mainMenubar = plugins.window.getMenuBar();
// add a new menu to the menubar of the main window
var menuMain = mainMenubar.addMenu();
menuMain.text = "New Menu in Main Menubar";
menuMain.addMenuItem("another entry", feedback);

Rike-cz 29-Jan-16 14:45pm

Wonderful, thanks!