Intelliun and Sun Demonstrate Rapid Application Development VB Rewritten and Tested on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
In a trial test, Intelliun Corporation and Sun rewrote a client/server
Visual Basic application using Intelliun's technology, The Virtual
Enterprise (VE), running on the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
(J2EETM). They demonstrated it on Fuel Reconciliations System (FRS)
from Professional Datasolutions, Inc. (PDI), who provides solutions to
convenience stores and the wholesale petroleum industry. The complexity
level of FRS is medium to high level, both on the business logic side and
the user interface side. It proved the applicability of VE and JavaTM
technology for its complete line of software offerings.
"We see PDI as an ideal representative of mid-market ISV looking for
the right technology for their next generation of products," said Iyad
Jabri, CEO of Intelliun. "We're convinced that VE running on the J2EE
platform offers quicker time-to-market, lower learning-curve, and a
wider access to leading technologies and deployment platforms."
"There are a lot of dated Visual Basic, COBOL and 4GL-based applications
out there running on proprietary platforms," said Katni Venkat,
Director of Xtreme Sales, Sun. "Sun servers, Java technology and
VE provide great vehicles in which to migrate to the Web, as either
applications or services in a highly scalable open platform
architecture."
VE is an e-business platform for rapidly developing and
integrating n-tier applications and Web-services. VE eliminates
traditional coding by using fully executable UML models.
FRS was originally developed as a client/server solution in
approximately 2,700 hours, with 900 hours spent on actual coding by
domain experts skilled in Microsoft's Visual Basic and SQL Server. The
complete functionality was duplicated using VE in 144 hours, resulting
in a highly interactive browser-based user interface that replicates
the FRS look-and-feel. For more details, see:
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