- Generates Active Server Pages (ASP) web applications that rival the
functionality of a desktop app
- Completely separates the User Interface from the Application and Business
Logic, allowing easy site integration
- Template driven code generation automates ASP development based on your
data dictionary
- Provide Query by example with a click of a checkbox
- Form based data navigation
- Form editing procedures with both client and server side data validation.
- Popup database lookups
- Provides User level security
- Delivers List to List drilldown for data analysis
- Easily "translate" behaviors from line of business desktop applications to
the web.
- Easily extensible via code embed points.
- Scalable to thousands of users
Watch a video of an unedited
"generated" Clarion/ASP application here.
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application, and how much do you need to know about ASP? Learn the answers in
less than four minutes, click on the link below to download the video to your
system.
Video
Demo part 1
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Video Demo Part
2
Clarion/ASP generates Active Server Pages (ASP) which provide query,
navigation, and editing rocedures for client/server databases over the web,
increasing the productivity of web designers and enabling business application
developers to easily translate behaviors from line of business desktop
applications to the web. The pages integrate into existing sites both in looks
and via links to and from existing pages of the site.
The code produced
additionally includes important features necessary for public and high volume
sites such as the ability to view only the parts of a database owned by
an individual user. The resulting applications are highly reliable, containing
sophisticated error checking, yet tight and very scalable.
There are
three important things that Clarion developers should know about the Clarion/ASP
development paradigm:
By providing a system relying on runtime HTML
templates and style sheets for the browser client layout, Clarion/ASP completely
separates the User Interface from the Application and Business logic. This means
the developer is free to concentrate on the application, and the web designer
can make the page fit into the existing web design via HTML formatting and style
sheets. Either side can make changes without affecting the other, yet not lose
them at generation time.
The code generation system itself is template
driven (of course). The developer doesn’t have to know anything about ASP,
VBScript, ADO, HTML design, or Cascading Style Sheets to produce a fully
functional, fully customized application. As the first SoftVelocity Clarion
add-in to produce non-Clarion applications, this is a transition point to a time
in which Clarion developers will take their data dictionaries and decide what
language to generate by deciding what target they wish to deploy to.
The
system is completely extensible, via embed points. In this case, however, your
embeds must consist of VBScript and/or ADO/SQL statements. The system, as is, is
very complete, but as always, Clarion provides unlimited options for the
developer. (Note: if maintaining both desktop and ASP targets in a single app,
ASP generation ignores the Clarion embed code, and Windows OS generation ignores
the ASP embed code).
Requirements
Clarion 5.5 Professional
or Enterprise Edition
SQL Database for back end
