The Advantages of WebAccel®

WebAccel slashes development time, because WebAccel Framework Beans automate all database changes.

In the traditional JSP development approach, read-write database access requires users to create the bean that does the insert, delete, and update for each table in the database, and the bean must be individually entered into each JSP page. A user might have to insert from 100 to over 500 beans. Because there is no easy method of tracking values modified by users and other code, the update must operate on all table columns, including tables that have not changed. Using only a simple SQL Select statement and a single set of intelligent beans, WebAccel dynamically performs all database interaction, tracks all user actions, and optimizes SQL directly to the relational database. No other available environment can match the capability of WebAccel to speed up development work.

The WebAccel XML Data Store buffers your data, and then fires changes to the database.

The WebAccel XML Data Store uses XML to perform its work internally, managing a buffer of logically related records for the developer. The XML buffer tracks all user interactions, and when all data is validated and correct, WebAccel writes the data back to the permanent persistent storage of a relational database. This gives developers the ease of working with a set of records at one time, and significantly eases the load on the database. Furthermore, because the data is stored in an XML format, it can be easily exported to any XML-compliant service.

Use only one JSP page to make all changes per record with Round-Trip Pre-Processing.

Using WebAccel’s unique Round-trip Pre-processing feature, users need only one JSP page to request, display, insert, update and delete data for a single record type. Many designs require multiple pages (one each for insert, update, delete, and select), but a WebAccel application typically has only a small fraction of the number of pages and objects required by any other environment.

Enjoy full access to every file object you want to include in your applications.

The WebAccel Framework includes built-in file upload and download functionality, which allows developers to easily incorporate any type of file object into an application.

You can extend WebAccel to completely customize your application by using Server-Side Scripting.

WebAccel incorporates a powerful Server-side Scripting engine that enables developers to directly call any custom Java® server-side functionality based on user events, including the return of any error messages to the front-end application. To use scripting, a developer just registers a custom class with the Framework, and then uses straightforward JavaScript syntax to access the Java methods by name. Access is automatic and is based on WebAccel pre-defined events, or on user-defined custom classes and methods. Using this facility, developers can incorporate any required functionality into a WebAccel application; thus, the Framework is fully extensible.

WebAccel is one of the first development tools to incorporate Scalable Vector Graphics, the revolutionary graphics standard, for business applications.

The advanced WebAccel front-end application templates incorporate a sophisticated Windows-like set of graphics controls based on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), the W3C state-of-the-art standard for Web graphics. With SVG, a user can build screens as clear and usable as those in a Windows application by using only thin-client HTML. In fact, WebAccel screens actually out-perform many other Window environments and tools. The WebAccel SVG library includes a host of commonly required business application controls, including toolbars, buttons, and tab pages. Applications using WebAccel controls run faster, and developers can insert the controls into user-designed templates in less time than it takes to create pages with traditional GIF graphics.

HTML designers can paint JSP pages at lightning speed, without knowing Java.

Special WebAccel extensions allow HTML designers with no Java experience to build JSP pages within Macromedia® DreamWeaver®, by just dragging and dropping Java developer objects onto the page. Web designers can now do most, if not all, of the front-end application work, while developers concentrate on back-end logic.

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