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:

http://www.intelliun.com/technology/whitepapers/pdi.pdf [...read more...]

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