On Monday, September 12, 2011 10:00 AM, "Kurt Wendt"

<kurtwendt@waitex.com> wrote:

> So - how do YOU Find Servoy? You say you seem to like it. Is it a direct

> replacement for FoxPro? Is it basically FoxPro coding? Or - is it

> completely different than FoxPro???

>

What is it first of all? Well, take a look at this:

http://wiki.servoy.com/display/public/DOCS/Servoy+stack+info

Essentially it's pre-rolled development stack using the popular

open-source components that you see above, and a customised version of

Eclipse as the IDE.

You code in Javascript which is compiled to server-side Java. Users

either run a 'smart client' which gives a rich, cross-platform UI (but

not using native controls) using Java WebStart, or just a normal

browser, enabling a less rich UI. The same forms and code will (largely)

work in both types of client with some restrictions on the browser

version.

Applications are deployed to an Application Server which publishes them.

As to the 'next FoxPro' claims ... what they have done is try to make it

conceptually very familiar to VFP people in a lot of ways. So it's very

form-centric, very oriented towards wasy drag & drop design, all the

underlying stack is hidden so you can get one with solving business

problems, and so on. It's also very easy to work with VFP data directly

- it's very database-agnostic as long as there is a JDBC driver for your

data sources.

It's Open Source now so pretty easy to evaluate - the stumbling block

remains the pricing of the Application Server component. They're pushing

the multi-tenant cloud model of deployment in a lot of ways.

--

Alan Bourke

alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

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