Technology

RapidApps technology consists of tools and APIs that provide a framework to generate web applications much faster than conventional development methodologies. Each component offers significant advantages over competitive components in the marketplace. Integrated together they provide us a fast and easy way to generate web applications for you.

Perhaps more important than the details of the component is our development philosophy. We believe

• Simple solutions are better than complex solutions.
• Responsibility for a task should reside in one file.
• People with different responsibilities should not edit the same file.
• Changes to the browser code should not require changes to the server code, unless the business logic changes.
• Changes to the server/business logic should have minimal impact on the browser code.

While these are simple "rules" that reduce the "friction" between components (and developers) none of the existing frameworks follow this philosophy. Java developers know how complex enterprise applications can be. Java frameworks are complex and the different components take significant code to integrate with each other. There are many friction points between different components of the common frameworks. Following our philosophy and eliminating these friction points pays huge dividends in development productivity. Using our framework we can develop applications up to an order of magnitude faster than conventional development. The resulting code is standard JavaEE code and can be costomized and maintained with any Java IDE.

Archtecture

RapidApps technology is focused on the server-side. We make no assumptions about the client-side (other than the standard http request and response protocol). This means any client side technology can be used with our server technology. If our customers want to maintain or change the presentation of the application with their favorite HTML/CSS tool, that is not a problem.

	PurchaseOrder po = new PurchaseOrder(PO_Number) ;
	po.setCompany(companyName) ;
	// ... add aditional PO information
	po.save() ;
	
	// to select the purchase order 
	PurchaseOrder po = new PurchaseOrder(PO_Number).select() ;
	String companyName = po.getCompanyName() ;