ALPHARETTA, GA (PRWEB) September 25, 2005
ClearNova Inc. today announced the release of ThinkCAP JX™ — a rapid application development (RAD) platform for building rich Internet applications that combines the power of AJAX, J2EE and open source to help organizations and their developers quickly and cost-effectively build intuitive and responsive Web-based applications while leveraging skills and infrastructure already in place.
By providing an intuitive visual design environment along with leading-edge AJAX functionality, ThinkCAP JX gives Java experts and non-experts alike an efficient, intuitive means of adding the power of AJAX to new and existing Web-based business applications.
“Rich Internet applications have been growing in importance for the last few years. Technologies such as AJAX are making it easier for developers and users to respectively build and enjoy a more rich experience,” said Daryl Plummer, Gartner Research.
“AJAX provides developers the ability to build much richer, more robust and faster-performing Web applications, making it a true and credible alternative to traditional client/server-based applications for businesses,” said Byron Matheson, CEO of ClearNova. “But AJAX development is hard if you don’t have the right tools—just like client/server and Windows programming is impossible without them. The beauty of ThinkCAP JX is that it uses the power of the J2EE server along with the browser to dramatically simplify AJAX development. We do the heavy rocket science so that our customers don’t have to.”
“We chose ThinkCAP because it provides a well thought out way of building Web applications and includes AJAX support. Our initial experience with the product is bearing this out—we’re very excited,” said Caleb Mitsvotai, executive director of development with Panda Restaurant Group, the largest Chinese food service provider in North America with more than 700 restaurant locations, and an early ThinkCAP JX customer.
What is AJAX and Why is it Important?
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a set of programming techniques that allow Web applications to be much more responsive and provide usability on par with traditional client/server applications. Using AJAX techniques, applications can act on data as soon as the user enters it, updating portions of a page instead of always refreshing the entire page. The results are faster, more robust applications.
“We use the eight-hour rule—it’s the litmus test for usability,” said Steve Benfield, vice-president of strategy, ClearNova. “Can users work with an application for eight hours a day without getting frustrated? Traditional Web applications fail this rule miserably. ThinkCAP JX with AJAX enables Web developers to build applications with high interactivity and functionality that users never expected through a browser interface.”
Until now, AJAX development has been highly labor intensive and required very sophisticated programming skills and a complete change in how developers approach their work. ThinkCAP JX allows Java and 4GL developers to rapidly build applications without having to become JavaScript experts. With ThinkCAP JX, developers can code on either the client or the server—or both; because developers can leverage Java to make changes to the user interface, it is easier for them to develop and maintain the application. ThinkCAP JX can also be used to add AJAX functionality to existing Java applications.
RAD Capabilities, Open Source Flexibility
ThinkCAP JX integrates almost 25 open source frameworks and engines including Struts and Hibernate and provides a seamless framework that ties them all together. It also adds value to open source through ThinkCAP Workbench, a highly visual design environment.
At the core of ThinkCAP’s AJAX framework are two recent open source AJAX projects: prototype.js and script.aculo.us. These libraries were chosen because they provide excellent base functionality but also because they are the two projects driving the AJAX functionality of the Ruby-On-Rails project and therefore are very likely to be frequently updated as they mature.
Other open source and standards projects in ThinkCAP’s core architecture are OpenRico, JUnit, log4J, JFreeChart, Apache Axis, Apache Commons (Validator, BeanUtils, Collections, Digester, and Logging), Castor, JEP, Jakarta (Oro, POI, and Regexp), Apache (Lucene, Batik, and Bcel), JavaTidy, and Xerces.
ThinkCAP JX Enterprise allows developers to visually build Web services to more than 60 different enterprise platforms including SAP, Peoplesoft, Siebel, Oracle Applications, Salesforce.com, CICS, Tibco, and Lotus Notes/Domino.
ThinkCAP JX runs on any operating system and Java application servers such as IBM WebSphere, BEA Weblogic, Oracle 10g, Sybase EA Server, JBoss, Tomcat, Jetty, and Resin.
About ThinkCAP JX
ThinkCAP JX includes:
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