Servoy R2 2.2-build 328

Servoy is an application development and deployment environment used to create and deploy user-interface applications.
Servoy consists of a powerful GUI designer, is fully event-driven and scriptable through JavaScript to help you build and deploy your SQL database front-end applications much faster than in any other development environment
Main features:
Database Access
- Use the free Sybase ASA SQL database or connect to any SQL-based database (Oracle, MS SQL, DB/2, Mysql, etc)
- Connect to multiple databases and combine (relate/join) tables for display on a single form (supports multi-key relations)
- All solution design and functionality is stored within a database (called the repository) providing a clear separation between design, functionality and data (multi-tiered applications)
- Built-in version control and release management, allowing concurrent development and client use
- Repository-based data means your solutions cant get "corrupted" like with other development environments
- Database runs on the server (not on the client) - resulting in high performance, high availability, scalable solutions
- Database transactions can be used in your solutions
Security
- Two-tier security - at the database level as well as the built-in username + password access control
- Built-in security groups can be used over multiple solutions
- Built-in support for tracking of user data changes (audit trail); configurable per table
Internationalization
- Massive developer support to build localized solutions
- Localize all your text/labels and even messages used in methods (scripts)
- All languages are supported including multi-byte languages such as Chineese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.
- Solutions can be deployed in multiple languages simultaneously
- Servoy itself will also be in the language of choice if the language is present
JavaBeans
- Support for custom components (beans) on your form
- Choose from thousands of commercial, shareware and freeware beans to extend the functionality of our solution without writing code
Scripting
- Scripting language is standard JavaScript - meaning you dont have to learn a proprietary programming language
- Advanced script editor with support for searching, replacing, undo, copy-paste of complete scripts, reuse of code and semi-automatic code generation
- Full programmatic control of all form objects (color, font, size, location, disable, enable, hide, etc.)
Debugger
- Full steppable Java script debugger with evaluation of variables, breakpoints, and modification of variables
- Runtime errors display offending line number to make debugging easier and faster
Navigation
- History object allows you to programmatically navigate backward and forward or "jump" to any past location - just like a web browser
- Built-in Tab-panel object with related forms on tabs - making development of a tabbed interface effortless
- Display forms in a new window or create custom popup dialogs from any form
Plugins
- Full plugin API
- Add toolbars, preference panels, modify data, can be called by script, add menu items, hide objects and more
- No need to manually install plug-ins on client - they are automatically downloaded from Server when required
- Servoy ships with 9 free plugins that offer: dialogs, POP email, SMTP email, scheduling, agent, http, file utils, export and import
- Third parties provide plugins that offer: custom menus, SOAP webservices integration, encryption, PDF printing and more
IDE
- Integrated development environment for developing design and functionality
- Non-modal Script editor/debugger opens in a separate window and can be kept open while designing forms
Event driven
- Servoy supports events on all levels of the application
- Data events
- onChange, onRecordEditStart, onRecordSave
- onRecordSelection
- Form events
- onLoad
- onShow
- onHide
- Action events
- Override Servoy commands (Find, Delete, Omit, etc)
- Field events
- onFocusGained
- onFocusLost
Deployment
- Scales up to tens of thousands of simultaneous users based on hardware
- Zero deployment client
- Scalable from laptop/desktop to mainframes
- Free Server version
Automatic Data Binding
As soon as you place a column from a table on a form, Servoy knows how to link it to your backend database. Servoy will take care of:
- Displaying data
- Updates
- Inserts
- Finds
- Broadcasting
- Related data
- Sorting
- Aggregations
Upgrading
- Auto upgrade of Client and Developer - no need to manually download and install upgrades - process is automatic
- New versions of developed solutions also get deployed to end-users without any installation
Styles
- Support for styles on form elements to easily develop and maintain a consistent look and feel between solutions or across an Enterprise
- Styles employ the standard CSS format as used in web browser applications
Standards Compliant
- Servoy uses accepted industry standards accross the entire product line:
- SQL for data manipulation, searching, inserting, etc. SQL is the de-facto standard for data manipulation and retrieval.
- JavaScript for implementing business rules and automating your solution. JavaScript is the most used scripting environment.
- Java for extending functionality. Servoy support JavaBeans and has an extensive Java API to extend its functionality. Integrating external Java applications/classes is also very easy.
- XML for data-exchange. Servoy can write and print to XML files. If you print to XML, metadata is also written out to the XML file.
- Web-Services to call remote services