next generation web applications

Next Generation Web Development Platform

Introducton to Diagramics Web Development Platform

The web has quickly become the best place for individuals, businesses and organizations to collect, organize and share information. But the information is doubled every year and soon we will not be able to deliver and effectively manipulate all this information if we only rely on IT guys to expose it to the web comunity.

Sooner or later the end user will have to make web pages, sites, widgets and applications, manage web connections and control internet data flow by himself. This had happened before with with telephones and cars.

But how end user can become a "do-it-yourself" IT pro without something new? Without new web development tools? Not everyone knows C#, VB, Java, Php, JavaScript, Css, Html, Http protocols, etc, etc, plus millions of tips and tricks that modern web developers use on the daily basis to make web content magically appear.

Well, the answer is obvious - we need to make web development simpler. Much simpler. As simple as possible. Simple for everyone. In other words, we need visual tools - visual designers, wizards, and editors, not textual programming languages.

We can and we soon will manipulate information by using visual shapes - blocks on block diagrams, arrows and lines on charts, trees, buttons, menus, etc. - all these little abstractions of the real or virtual world objects. Anyone can to this. Anyone can drag a box and drop it in other place, Simple. And building web pages, sites and widget shall not be any different from this simple and intuitive process.

Look now how DG is archiving this simplicity in building web applications with its latest web development platform.

To make web development as simple as possible, Diagramics has come up with a number of principals most of which have already been implemented in the Diagramics Web Development Platform:

• - end-users shall be able to create and customize web pages and widget by themselves.
• - web developers shall mostly be deal with online editing tools, not with coding
• - web developers are just another sort of users - they are "powerful" users, who not only create and customize web apps online as end-users, but also they add server-side functionality with the traditional server-side development (ASP.NET, C#,etc.)

Diagramics web development platform is based on "visual" development philosophy that challenges traditional application development models.

Diagramics Platform is based on a visual component oriented architecture, where presentation components ("visual controls") and data components ("data adapters") can be developed independently from one another, while being linked by common strongly-typed managed code interfaces.

Developers can create visual and data components in any .NET language - and leave the integration of these components to non-developers - web designer and end-users, who compose their web pages and widgets out of these components without changing a single line of code.

To compose a web page or a web widget, users do not need any coding experience; it is all done via visual editing tools.