Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps

Bobby Jasper writes to tell us that The Firebird Database Community News has an interesting writeup on Morfik, a new development tool for beginning web applications. Morfik boasts increased developer productivity going so far as to draw comparisons between themselves and the current industry as VB 1.0 was to GUI development. After five years of development they are getting ready to release an evaluation version of their software, might be worth a look.

windows only

[Anonymous Coward]

Morfik development environment itself is a Windows application

You might have mentioned that in the writeup so non-MSCEs
didn't waste their time reading TFA

Re:Pretty cool

[Anonymous Coward]

Pretty cool, but I could not find any info on what languages they support.

Also from the article:

"The application logic is written in the developer's object oriented syntax of choice (currently Morfik Basic, Morfik Pascal, Morfik C# or Morfik Java)"

So, had ya actually read the article...

What Morfik is

[axonis]

Morfik is a professional Integrated Development Environment. The developer starts with designing the data layer in a visual environment similar to Microsoft Access or Microsoft Enterprise Manager. This is usually followed by the design of data base queries which again is carried out in a powerful visual environment. For the presentation layer the developer creates forms and reports using a familiar visual environment that resembles VB and Delphi. The application logic is written in the developer's object oriented syntax of choice (currently Morfik Basic, Morfik Pascal, Morfik C# or Morfik Java). There is also provision for developing web services. Once the individual components are defined and written, Morfik compiles the application into a single executable that incorporates a web server and database engine. This application demonstrates the behaviour of both web and desktop applications. The user can access the application through a browser on-line, off-line, locally and remotely. During the development cycle the developer has access to a comprehensive suit of debugging, profiling and testing facilities. Morfik applications are comprised purely of HTML and JavaScript yet the developer does not need to master these languages.

Re:windows only

[jurt1235]

They could have saved themselves several years of development by using opensource. A tool similar to morfik (MVC model, ajax development, some datamodelling) is for example this one: http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/AvailableOp enProjects/backbase-eclipse.doc [tudelft.nl]

There are probably a lot more (google on +eclipse +plugin +ajax gives 234.000 hits)

Re:Lot's of nice words, but where is the software?

[desplesda]

It's not vapourware, since I worked on it for a while over the summer. It's actually pretty decent system for getting together a working web application - you program the system in a language very similar to Delphi, and it creates for you an executable that has Apache and Firebird embedded in it - it's a RAD solution, sure, but for home users, it's also a thing to double click on and all of a sudden your computer's a web server, and you can manage your finances, run a calendar, do your bookmarking, et cetera.

Re:Why GMail?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because they used their IDE to create a replica of GMail:

http://www.morfik.com/prerelease_schedule.html#Gma il_Demo [morfik.com]

Re:windows only

[dorkygeek]

Better head over to http://www.backbase.com/ [backbase.com] then. And yes, they eat their own dog food!

Re:windows only

[daviddennis]

Over $900 for a version running on a shared server, or over $5,000 for one for dedicated servers?

I like the concept, but don't have that kind of money :-(.

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