CodeCharge Studio RAD tool
- 1. Code Charge Studio yessoftware
- 2. Contents Rapid Application Development Code Charge Studio Architecture Code Charge Studio Features Code Charge Studio Limits Code Charge Studio Improvements
- 3. Rapid Application Development -> software development methodology which uses minimal planning in favor of rapid prototyping. -> the "planning" of software developed using RAD is interleaved with writing the software itself. -> the lack of extensive pre-planning generally allows software to be written much faster, and makes it easier to change requirements.
- 4. Code Charge Studio - Architecture
- 5. Code Charge Studio - Architecture -> Code Charge Studio combines an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with a variety of wizards (builders) to create ,visually, various objects that are linked together to build the final application. -> Code Charge Studio users can create web applications by connecting to a database and placing data-aware forms and components on a page. -> During the page design process, the representation of the project and all of its pages is saved in XML format in addition to HTML code that contains the page design.
- 6. Code Charge Studio - Features -> INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (IDE) Integrated editors, HTML editor, Code editor, Page preview, Live data viewer, Diagram Editor, Project navigation, Project Explorer, Code Explorer, Precision controls, Format, Data, Events, HTML Element, Controls, Components -> LANGUAGE, SERVER AND DATABASE SUPPORT Languages supported : ASP.NET (C# & VB) 1.1 & 2.0, PHP 4 & 5, ASP/VBScript, JSP, Java Servlets, ColdFusion 4.0, and Perl 5.0. Application servers - industry-standard servers including Apache,Microsoft IIS, Macromedia ColdFusion, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and others on UNIX, Windows and Mac. Web Servers : ALL Web servers are supported, including Apache, IIS, etc. on allplatforms (Windows, Linux, Mac) Databases - MySQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access, PostgreSQL, and all others that support Web connectivity. Web technologies - PHP, ASP.NET, Perl, ColdFusion, Servlets, JSP. Ajax features, services and builders, Flash Charts and Flash Chart Builder, Web Reporting (version 3->)
- 7. Code Charge Studio - Limits -> the delivered solution may lack the scalability of a solution that was designed as a full application from the start. -> d ue to time boxing, where features are pushed off to later versions in favor of delivering an application in a short time frame, RAD may produce applications that are less full featured than traditionally developed applications. - > a ll the builders this tools exposes to the user require a data source(database) to be defined, thing that may not be needed some times – when working with web-services for example and when these builders are unusable this tool's power decreases significantly. -> inability to create reusable components, only to use the built-in components.
- 8. Code Charge Studio – Improvements -> support for newer versions of .Net Framework (current supported version is 2.0) -> database existence constraint when using the builders should be removed
- 9. Faculty of Computer Science, University “Al. I. Cuza”, Iasi, Romania {stefan.prutianu, stefan.speranta, bogdan.polojan, stefan.ceriu} @info.uaic.ro