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jBASE Web Builder

jBASE Web Builder (jWB) is a fully featured toolset, which provides a quick and easy methodology for writing and implementing Internet and Intranet applications. It is both an integrated development environment and a Web application server.

All development and deployment is done from within a browser. Standard Web browsers are used to design, develop, debug and deploy applications. Components are selected from a palette of tools and then dropped into pages where needed. The entire development environment is totally extendible, both in terms of the visual components and the language components. In deployment, there is no client software to install.

Productivity

Object Based
Extensive control set
Easily extendible
Built-in security
Built-in session handling

The development process is very dynamic. jWB generates HTML and included scripts on the fly. Any object can contain a trigger that reacts to an event such as a mouse click - initiating a procedure. Dynamic tags and each property of every object can be dynamically assigned when the page is served. Everything in jWB is object based, which allows re-use of code.

Download a white paper showing:
How to create a Dirt Tag
jWB Productivity Benefits
How to create a Development Class
How to create jWB Menus

Scalability

Fast jBASE DBMS
Server independent session storage
Platform independent

Session handling is elegantly managed through the use of a common area that may be shared across many pages in an application. This information is written to fast permanent jBASE storage, and so many Web servers can be easily used to serve an application. A user could have every request served by a different server, and not know the difference. In this way, the product is scalable from a small, single server right up to a Web farm with hundreds of machines.

Powerful jBASE data storage is built in. With one of the smallest footprints of any DBMS, and proven Hash file technology, scalability is second to none. jBASE is ideally suited to high volume data handling such as Internet applications. In addition to the built-in DBMS, there is the facility to talk to other vendors' database products through the flexible jEDI architecture.

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jWB - Performance Tuning

Integration

Open interface
Operating system based
J2EE integration

As a jBASE application, jWB offers the same ease of integration. The BASIC code compiles to operating system executables and shared libraries. jWB also has an open interface which allows integration with virtually all technologies available today. jWB can even run inside J2EE application servers, such as IBM's Websphere.

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Using jWB with VB and SQL
jWB - Integrating Visual Basic

Security

Rich object security model
128 bit DES encryption
Encrypted session keys

In addition to server-side security measures such as Secure Socket Layer (SSL/HTTPS) and any security integrated into the operating system, jWB developers also have a rich security model available to them. This allows objects to be secured at any level just by changing a single property. Applications can be secured so that a user must log on before using them, or may be completely open if the site does not need to be secured.

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jWB Security Features
jWB Builder Sessions & Security

Maintainability and Deployment

Complete version management
Infinite undo and redo
Interactive remote debugging
Built-in deployment
Code profiling and coverage tools

A complete version management system is built- in which allows both a visual comparison and a code comparison between versions, side by side on the screen.

Changes to your application can be undone all the way back, and redone all the way forward. You can even debug your application line by line over the Internet in a fully featured debugger. There are tools which help you to profile your application and understand how people are using your application. Every keystroke your users make is recorded, giving a complete audit trail, and also allowing you to play back the usage at a later date.

A full deployment system is built in to jWB which allows your application to be completely portable across platforms.

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jWB - Deployment
Debugging in jWB

Feature Rich

Built-in internationalization
Built-in scheduling
Built-in email

jWB comes with powerful features ready to use and to empower your applications. Both incoming and outgoing email is handled. Internationalization will allow you to make your applications available to a wider audience.

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jWB - Internationalization
Uploading a file in jWB
Record Locking Strategies and the Web

User Story - Read how jWB helped Cargo UK compete worldwide! Download the pdf version!

White Papers (to download all White Papers together: jWB_White_Papers.zip)

All the current documentation on jWB: jwbdocs.zip

The Developer's Reference Manual and an overview of the jWB Run-Time Environment: jWB_Documentation.zip

Download a free evaluation version here!

View a presentation from the jBASE User Conference 2003: jBASE Web Builder Overview and Update

New jWB Mailing List
Following feedback from some of our customers, a new mailing list has been set up for discussion of jBASE Web Builder hints, tips and ideas. The intention is similar to the tech list, but solely aimed at jWB. As with the tech list, support issues are discouraged, and will be referred to devsup@jbase.com. The list is live and you can sign up in three ways...by email: jwb@ns.jbase.com; over the web: http://ns.jbase.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=jwb; or as a secure newsgroup: news://ns.jbase.com/jwb.