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Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the only-revolutionary-if-it-takes-hold dept.

Bobby Jasper writes to tell us that The Firebird Database Community News has an interesting writeup on Morfik, a new development tool for beginning web applications. Morfik boasts increased developer productivity going so far as to draw comparisons between themselves and the current industry as VB 1.0 was to GUI development. After five years of development they are getting ready to release an evaluation version of their software, might be worth a look.

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  1. windows only by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Morfik development environment itself is a Windows application

    You might have mentioned that in the writeup so non-MSCEs
    didn't waste their time reading TFA

    1. Re:windows only by jurt1235 · · Score: 5, Informative

      They could have saved themselves several years of development by using opensource. A tool similar to morfik (MVC model, ajax development, some datamodelling) is for example this one: http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/AvailableOp enProjects/backbase-eclipse.doc

      There are probably a lot more (google on +eclipse +plugin +ajax gives 234.000 hits)

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  2. Well its got the buzzwords by Viol8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Revolutionary new", "smart client" , "feature-rich", "unplugged", "ground breaking".

    Perhaps I'm a cynic but I always feel that a products real value is inversely proportional to
    the amount of marketdroid BS in the write-ups. If I'm correct then this is just Yet-Another-IDE
    that is (and wow, like this is so radical dude , well if would be if it was 1990 again) - a Smart
    Client! Jeez... how many times we been here before?

    1. Re:Well its got the buzzwords by rjshields · · Score: 5, Funny

      Could it be that this development tool is aimed at other marketdroids? I can just imagine them dragging in some feature-rich controls and clicking the "generate ground breaking web app" button.

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  3. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have been waiting for something like this, finally I can merge the syntactic and semantic elegance of VB with the power and speed of a compiled language with a fast WYSIWYG development and deployment cycle!

  4. Why is this even on /.?! by Qa1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is basically a commercial for some source software package. They haven't released code. They haven't even releasd a closed source evaluation version. All they "released" is some web page with lots of hysterical marketing hype and unsubstantiated vague buzzwords ("JST").

    So why, again, is this on /.?

  5. What the fuckity fuck? by kmmatthews · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How can anyone possibly claim this isn't an ad?

    It's an "article" for a CLOSED SOURCE, WIN32 VAPORWARE PRODUCT that LIKENS ITSELF TO VISUAL BASIC.

    For god sakes, that's like saying "WOW!!! THIS IS AS FUN AS AIDS!"

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