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Features & Benefits
Rapid Web application development through productivity-enhancing features
Speedware Autobahn II is a rich enterprise-scale development solution that boasts a number of time-saving features to design, code, view and test applications all from within a single intuitive program.
- Easy to use repository-based, object-oriented CASE tool.
- Real-time testing on the platform of choice.
- HTML files automatically deployed behind the Web server and runtime components generated and deployed on the application server.
- Unique application map illustrates the flow and relationships between Web pages and programs.
- Simple point-and-click interface allows developer to create new pages, trigger wizards, and modify HTML or script code.
- Wizards automate creation of forms for data manipulation tasks.
- Integrated report editor extracts data, joins tables, specifies sort items and control breaks to produce dynamic Web reports.
Security and state management features offer high degree of flexibility
Speedware Autobahn II's state management feature allows applications to operate in both state-based and stateless Web environments to best suit a developer's needs.
- In state-based applications, recognizes users and keeps them bound to their sessions.
- Supports multiple sessions for stateless Web applications.
- Internal security features ensure 100% secure point-to-point access.
- N-tier scalability designed for high volume usage and ensures that capacity may be precisely adjusted to its environment.
- Offers security provisions, such as SSL support, cookie recognition, server-based user authentication, and a variety of firewall configurations.
- Scalable architecture handles large number of simultaneous users and can incorporate the use of multiple machines.
- Distributed environment allows applications to be partitioned over several machines while server processes are dynamically controlled to match the variations in user session demand.
Platform independence and open architecture ensure easy integration and scalability
Integration with legacy systems, platform independence and open architecture ensure that Web applications created with Speedware Autobahn II will integrate well into a variety of IT environments and offer a high degree of scalability.
- Tight integration of legacy systems into any new development effort.
- Distributed development environment allows for the creation of applications for use in HP-UX, MPE/iX, and Windows environments.
- Application code is 100% portable across all major database management systems through both native DBMS interfaces and ODBC.
- Isolates presentation layer of an application from the executable code.
- Uses external templates to simplify development, maintenance and integration of other Web technologies.
- Ability to connect to Web-services, .Net and J2EE.
Special Features for Speedware Customers
Customers who currently develop applications using Speedware Autobahn will find it easy to upgrade to Speedware Autobahn II by using a feature that scans static HTML pages and automatically creates the application map nodes and links. Furthermore, Speedware/4GL customers can begin developing quickly as they can use their existing knowledge of the high-level scripting language to design new Web applications. Existing code can also be re-used within an Autobahn application, which dramatically reduces the effort required.
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