On Monday, September 12, 2011 10:00 AM, "Kurt Wendt" <kurtwe...@waitex.com> wrote:
> So - how do YOU Find Servoy? You say you seem to like it. Is it a direct > replacement for FoxPro? Is it basically FoxPro coding? Or - is it > completely different than FoxPro??? > What is it first of all? Well, take a look at this: http://wiki.servoy.com/display/public/DOCS/Servoy+stack+info Essentially it's pre-rolled development stack using the popular open-source components that you see above, and a customised version of Eclipse as the IDE. You code in Javascript which is compiled to server-side Java. Users either run a 'smart client' which gives a rich, cross-platform UI (but not using native controls) using Java WebStart, or just a normal browser, enabling a less rich UI. The same forms and code will (largely) work in both types of client with some restrictions on the browser version. Applications are deployed to an Application Server which publishes them. As to the 'next FoxPro' claims ... what they have done is try to make it conceptually very familiar to VFP people in a lot of ways. So it's very form-centric, very oriented towards wasy drag & drop design, all the underlying stack is hidden so you can get one with solving business problems, and so on. It's also very easy to work with VFP data directly - it's very database-agnostic as long as there is a JDBC driver for your data sources. It's Open Source now so pretty easy to evaluate - the stumbling block remains the pricing of the Application Server component. They're pushing the multi-tenant cloud model of deployment in a lot of ways. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1315843731.30259.140258140191...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
