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William Wong July 21, 2003
Rave, SDKs, and new technology permeated the Sun One Conference In San Francisco this year. Project Rave was one of the new technologies displayed. Based on the JavaServer Faces technology, drag-and-drop layout of user interfaces and component infrastructures facilitate rapid application design (RAD) on servers running J2EE.
Project Relator complements Rave by providing a RAD environment that links server services to client applications on mobile devices. A new initiative for unified testing of mobile Java-based devices was also announced. All of the major handset vendors — Motorola, Nokia, Siemens, and Sony Ericsson — signed on. This will greatly improve cross-platform compatibility. . .
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Software Magazine, Oct, 1996 by Mary Hanna
Java gets serious with RAD - rapid application development - Technology Information
finding a Java-generating tool that provided security, good session management, error correction and recovery proved quite difficult, according to Moriarty. "A number of the tools were idiosyncratic and inconsistent — in a word, immature," he says. Moriarty finally settled on NetDynamics from NetDynamics Inc., Menlo Park, Calif., formerly Spider Technologies Inc. He liked the fact that NetDynamics targeted the Web with its product, rather than adding Web capability to an existing product. . .