Introducing Web Designer

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Web Designer is a software development tool for realizing data-intensive web user interfaces that enable users to query and manipulate stored business data in a web browser.

USoft solutions have the distinctive feature of systematically interposing a Rules Engine between the web application and the data. (This Rules Engine is defined in the USoft Definer tool.)

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USoft delivers an open but integrated solution for the development and maintenance of web user interfaces complete with data storage, validation of all types of business rules, and generation of default interactive web pages to add, change, and search data. Connections between browsers and databases are set up automatically. The Rules Engine drives the application, and determines the best location to validate data, database calls, and the processing of business rules.

Web Designer takes full advantage of the business logic laid down in the rules repository and builds web pages on top of this logic. Unlike other graphical web design tools, that know little or knothing about the structure of the data in the database and the business rules governing that data:

At design time, Web Designer elegantly re-uses business logic to offer rich default web pages automatically.

At runtime, web pages built with Web Designer connect with the rules engine, not directly with the database. Business logic is not locked inside the web application, so that it may be re-used by non-Web clients and by non-interactive Web clients (such as Web services and REST interfaces).

With Web Designer, maintenance becomes a process of rapid iterative development. Thousands of intricately interlinked rules are handled with ease, away from the concerns of web page look-and-feel.

 

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Rules-Centred Architecture

A Jump Start: The Default Application

Development Tasks and Team Members

Model-driven, Rapid Application Development