Progress Software has taken its next major step towards populating the Progress open source software exchange facility (POSSE) with the release of a new Internet Component Framework (ICF). This follows shortly after the announcement that MIP`s Astra development framework would be the open standard for development environments.
"The ICF is designed to provide a range of components intended to future-proof e-business applications and cut their development time in half," says Progress SA MD Rick Parry.
Progress has been working with key independent software vendors for almost a year to build ICF, but Parry says that development has been accelerated since the launch of POSSE last December, which was created when the company released the source code for its application development environment.
The new framework will be based on a design repository, where data driven application information can be stored. One POSSE member`s repository has been selected as the prototype, and the team will work to make it more general-purpose so that it will support a variety of objects, and work to incorporate the strengths of the existing repository.
Other ICF components that are being built and finalised by participating team members include: session management, for managing application objects, defining what is running where and how to find and execute it; data management, to improve and standardise client access to business components running on Progress AppServers; migration tools, for migrating existing application code and generating portions of new applications, and globalisation, to provide dynamic language translation for the UI and formatting of dates, currency and other international considerations.
"One of the key goals is to provide a common model for back-end logic for all target user interfaces supported by Progress including the Progress 4GL Client and WebSpeed browser interface," says Parry. The company plans to release the first big chunk of code for ICF next week, and may provide additional components later. In addition, under the ICF-KickStart initiative, the POSSE community plans to take ICF from design specification to product over the next three months.
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The Progress Company is a global supplier of software technology and services for developing, deploying, integrating and managing e-business solutions. The company provides a comprehensive suite of products that includes application development tools, application servers, messaging servers, and the industry`s most widely used, lowest-cost-of-ownership embedded database.
The Progress Company`s partners include more than 2,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) and application service providers (ASPs) who supply annually over $5 billion in Progress(r)-based applications and related services. Over 40,000 organizations across more than 100 countries - including 60% of the Fortune 100 - rely on Progress-based applications. The Progress Company, an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), is headquartered in Bedford, Mass., and can be reached at 1-781-280-4000 or on the Web at www.progress.com.
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Progress Software South Africa is a supplier of software products for e-business applications and is the official South African presence of Progress Software Corporation.
Progress Software Corporation is a global supplier of software products and services for developing, deploying and managing business applications moving to the Internet. It offers messaging servers, application servers, databases, and application development and management products. Its partners include more than 2,000 application service providers (ASPs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) who supply annually over $5 billion in Progress-based applications and related services. Progress products are used by over 10,000 organisations across 100 countries worldwide, including 60% of Fortune 100 companies.
The Progress IDE is used to create business applications that use additional Progress Software deployment products, such as the Progress Open AppServer, DataServers, the WebSpeed Transaction Server, and the Progress RDBMS -- Workgroup and Enterprise editions. The Progress RDBMS has been noted for its low overhead, small footprint, high scalability and has been cited by Gartner/Dataquest as the leading Embedded Database worldwide for the past three years.
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