Servoy is a cross-platform application development and deployment environment used to create and deploy applications. Servoy consists of a powerful GUI designer, is fully event-driven and scriptable through JavaScript to help you build and deploy your applications much faster than in any other development environment.
Applications developed with Servoy can use all popular SQL back-ends such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB/2, IBM Informix, Sybase, OpenBase, Mysql, PostgreSQL, Firebird; and combine data from different databases in one user interface (UI). Servoy can be deployed on all popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and other UNIX systems.
Features include
Connect to Any SQL Backend
Cross Database Joins
Transaction Support
Stored Procedures
Automatic Databinding
Data Broadcasting
Separation of Design and Data
Built in Version Control
SSL
Scriptable Security
Audit Trail
JavaBean Support
Java Plug-In API Support
Scripting via JavaScript or inline Java
Built in Audit Trail
UNICODE format to allow support for multiple languages
Support for Cascading Style Sheets
Support for Native OS Look-And-Feel
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Countering an Apple-favoring .NET critic
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Google releases open-source crypto toolkit
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:15:34 -0700
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