RAD - Dev automation 

http://javatoolbox.com/categories/rad-dev-automation

Includes Application development automation

Exadel Studio 

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Description: Rapid application development tool for creating web applications using JSF and/or Struts.

Features include:

The Pro edition adds features such as dynamic code assist for JSF artifacts, a diagram view for JSF navigation, a visual Tiles editor, Hibernate 3.0 support, and WYSIWYG JSP features.

 Added:         2005-09-13
 Updated:       2006-02-03
Attributes:     Built for Java. Free, or a free version is available

JBuilder 

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Description: Visual development environment for building applications, applets, JSP/servlets, JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans and distributed J2EE platform applications.

Features include:

JDesignerPro 

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Description: Application development and deployment system specifically designed to help you build database driven applications that run on any browser or wireless handheld device with no programming experience necessary.

Added:         2005-06-01
Attributes:    Built for Java[BuiltForJava]

JAG 

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Latest version: 6.0

Description: JAG (Java Application Generator) is an application that creates complete, working J2EE applications from a database or UML model.

Features include:

CodeCharge Studio 

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Description: Visual rapid web application development and web reporting tool. CodeCharge Studio generates dynamic web sites in ASP, JSP, PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ASP.NET, from a single meta description you edit and customize using an IDE.

Features include:

CA Plex 

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Description: Architected RAD tool that combines the techniques of model-based development, patterns and code generation to accelerate the delivery and maintenance of .NET and Java applications.

Features include:

Previous name: AllFusion Plex

Added:         2005-03-09
Updated:       2007-05-21
Attributes:    Built for Java

Systinet Developer 

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Description: Extends the Eclipse IDE to support web services creation, debugging and deployment.

Systinet Developer can turn a Java application into a Web service using point-and-click and code generation. It automates the generation of WSDL descriptions and SOAP interfaces, includes integrated deployment, debugging and monitoring tools, and provides support for UDDI query and publication.

Features include:

Source Cutter 

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Source Cutter generates object to relational mappings via a data access layer, and also produces presentation layer logic by creating web pages and Windows forms for the data access layer. Source Cutter can build Web or Windows-based solutions using metadata obtained from any major database (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Access, etc.).

Source Cutter also provides template based extensibility. By modifying the existing templates or creating your own templates you can alter the source code generated. The markup language used by the templates is similar to ASP or JSP-based scripting.

The JSP Generators come with freely redistributable JSP custom tags.

Added:         2005-06-29
Updated: 2007-12-19
Attributes:    Built for Java

Java Studio Creator 

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Description: IDE for rapid visual web application and portlet development.

Java Studio Creator is built on NetBeans 4.1, and includes features like a set of JavaServer Faces components, support for building JSR-168 portlets, access to databases, an application model, and more.

Features include:

documented on: 2008-02-09

IDM Java RAD Tools 

http://www.intranetjournal.com/reviews/javaradtools.shtml

Software Reviews from IDM's January 1998 Special Issue

Apptivity Developer

A critical look at Progress Software's combined Java RAD tool and application server.

J Squared :: In his two-part evaluation of PowerJ Enterprise, Aron Benett explores both the development aspects and sophisticated CORBA and transaction management capabilities of Sybase's mammoth Java RAD tool. (PowerJ review - Part II).

Java Builder :: Borland brings its polished development interface to the newest language on the block with JBuilder 1.0. By Sachin Gangupantula.

Bean Machine :: From the maker of Big Iron comes a big Java-building tool. Aron Benett's big review does justice to IBM VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition.

Visual Cafe for Java 2.0 :: Editor Gordon Benett connects with the Database Development Edition of Symantec's flagship Java maker.

Number One with a Bullet :: Our reviewer shoots at BulletProof Inc.'s JDesignerPro 2.3, but the all-Java development system apparently thrives on competition. By Sachin Gangupantula.

Silver Standard

Senior software engineer Aron Benett mines SilverStream 1.0 — and finds it semi-precious.

Turning Your Flex/Java Application into a RAD Project 

http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/turning_your_flexjava_application_into_a_rad_project.htm

While using Adobe Flex for development of the front end portion of your J2EE applications slowly but surely become a reality, many enterprise managers are still waiting for development of Flex ecosystem that would include a pool of professional developers as well as third-party components making Flex-related projects more productive.

Short learning curve, variety of Flex technical conferences and training seminars quickly address shortage of professional Flex developers.

Last year, Adobe evangelists have created an online Flex component exchange where individuals and teams from all around the world started to offer their free and commercial components.

A new community site myflex.org is yet another step in further evolving Flex ecosystem. This is a place that has been created to allow third party vendors offer their plugins and components for sale, and the first four components are ready to convert your Flex/Java application into a Rapid Application Development (RAD) project:

Clear Data Builder

this Eclipse plugin is a commercial version of an open source DaoFlex code generator. It takes away complexity of writing Java code for communication with relational databases. All Java and Flex artifacts are created automatically based on your SQL Select statement. You do not have to know Java to create end-to-end Flex-Java-Database CRUD application in minutes.

Fx2Ant

this Eclipse plugin instantly translates the settings of your existing Flex Projects into ANT build scripts, so that you can build your modules, libraries and applications outside of Eclipse and create larger builds integrated with J2EE projects. What takes weeks on even a mid-size project, can be done in seconds with Fx2Ant. While generating the build script, Fx2Ant applies additional size-optimizing techniques that help to modularize development and cut the download time of enterprise Flex applications.

Fx2Doc

this plugin allows you quickly build and organize the documentation for your project. You can upload your documentation to the corporate or the community server, so that it becomes shared by other developers.

Log4Fx

this component provides a number of configurable implementations of log targets and an interactive control panel. You can target your log information to Eclipse IDE, local or remote server and other destinations.

Given the time savings that these plugins bring to any project, their prices are nominal. You can download documentation and free trial versions of these components. A trial version of ClearBI, a very powerful but simple in use Web reporter is also available.

While development of the front-end for enterprise applications in Flex is faster than in Java, using these components is a step toward a serious reduction of time to market. The above plugins were written using Java, XML and XSLT, but no knowledge of these languages is required. On the other hand, advanced users can customize XSLT templates to ensure that these plugins generate code or build scripts as per specific project needs.

The Web site myflex.org has been developed in Flex so Flash Player is required. Note the buttons on the right that allow you to hide the Web site's header and/or switch to a desktop mode. The latter allows this Web site to "break free" from the Web browser frame. This mode should remind the users that rich Internet applications can be treated as desktop applications delivered over the Web.

*Tags*: flex java rad ria bi

documented on: 7 June 2007, Yakov Fain

InterSystems Adds RAD, Java Tools To Cache Database 

http://www.crn.com/software/193501545

With the next release of its Cache database, InterSystems will make available a new set of tools to ease development of Web-based database applications.

Cache 2007, to ship next week, will incorporate a new framework for building browser-accessible database applications.

This "Zen" framework "builds on the concept of AJAX and lets partners build a user experience that is as interactive and rich as what people expect in a Windows client-server environment," said Paul Grabscheid, vice president of strategic planning for InterSystems, Cambridge, Mass.

In short, it should help VARs or developers put rich Web front ends on legacy database applications. It supports the use of pure JavaScript in the browser itself and uses XML for page definition, the company said.

InterSystems Cache is particular strong in medical and healthcare accounts where its ancestor, the venerable MUMPS database, held sway.

QuadraMed, a partner specializing in healthcare applications, is bullish on Zen and all of the pre-built components that come with it.

"We can extend these components and classes and reuse them while continuing to use the development techniques we already love," said Jim Klein, executive vice president and chief technology officer for the Reston, Va.-based company. "The techies develop standard ways to attack problems and then domain experts, the business guys, don't have to worry about things like how to do lookups."

Klein said InterSystems has proven a good technology partner over the years. "If you sell an application that tracks their software in, even if you end up not selling the database to the customer, they make you whole,"

With Zen, InterSystems is trying to make it easier for VARs and ISVs to build global applications. "You can build in a single language. Our software looks at the text, separates it from the application and makes it easy to give to a translator. Then the application ends up using the database to store all the relevant languages." Grabscheid said.

Also new for VARs and developers is technology to make it easier for Java developers to build database applications using their skill sets.

"Where you historically defined the data inside the database and then connected to it using Java, the Jalapeno toolset lets you define the data required within your Java application and we look at that Java code and decide what needs to be done on the database side," Grabsheid said.

Both Zen and Jalapeno will be part of Cache 2007. Pricing starts at about $220 per user and ranges up to $1,380 per user depending on configuration. The database runs on Windows, Linux, and the popular Unix variations.

documented on: Nov. 03, 2006, Barbara Darrow, CMP Channel

top Java Language: RAD Tools products 

http://www.provantage.com/~66JVRAD_.htm

JBuilder Adobe Academic JRun

Data Representations 

http://www.datarepresentations.com/

Desktop tools

Enterprise solutions

documented on: 2008-02-09