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First Eclipse Plugin for Visual Development of Web Application UIs

Posted on: Monday, 4 August 2003, 06:00 CDT

INNOOPRACT announces the launch of its Eclipse Plugin for easy visual development of HTML-based User Interfaces. As a supporting member of the Eclipse Consortium, INNOOPRACT enables developers at all skill levels to profit from web technologies. The Release Candidate of the Plugin is available at www.w4toolkit.com.

"With the Eclipse Plugin and our W4 technology we strive towards two principal aims: Firstly, we offer relief from the complexity of building web enabled user interfaces for current java developers. Secondly, we enable those developers and companies who cannot afford time and money to build web-based applications to profit from pain-free distribution, easier integration and central administration. There are still countless Visual Basic and Access applications that companies would like to replace with web-based solutions. For both groups our Eclipse Plugin offers new prospects," states Jochen Krause, founder and Managing Director of INNOOPRACT.

By combining the powerful Eclipse IDE with INNOOPRACT's Plugin a simpler approach to web UI development has emerged, available so far only with Visual Basic running on fat clients. Besides ease of use for the developer, INNOOPRACT's W4 technology offers active cross browser support for all major browsers. User Interfaces can be created with flexible building blocks of widgets that can be extended, composed and easily reused. In future releases a multi-channel-support for Web, Swing and SWT will be offered. W4 technology has been successfully integrated in existing applications by using adapters.

About INNOOPRACT

With its services and software development tools, the German-based INNOOPRACT Informationssysteme GmbH supports programmers, businesses and partners to help them meet the challenges of the 21st century. INNOOPRACT provides tools and technologies to increase productivity and quality in the development of software. The focus of the technology is on visual development of powerful web-enabled user interfaces for integrated business processes on the Intra- or Internet. INNOOPRACT is a member of the Eclipse Consortium and maintains technological partnerships with Borland, IBM, skynamics and SUN Microsystems. Development tools of INNOOPRACT are the ideal complement to the Java products and services of these partners.

About Eclipse

Eclipse establishes an open-source eco-system of royalty-free technology and an open universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse-based tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a Plugin-based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and use software tools, saving time and money. Full details of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at www.eclipse.org.

 INNOOPRACT Informationssysteme GmbH Stephanienstrasse 20 76133 Karlsruhe Germany 

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