From the beginning of programming, you have to deal with methods, classes, interfaces, things like that. Over time, there will be a natural summary of this, which leads to the development platform.
Now among the programmers in China, there are a large part of them are programming some MIS, government MIS and so on. Its main work is to add, delete, change and check the data, and do some basic management of MIS system. With the popularity of the Internet, it is naturally required to take the Internet as the basis and network them to realize the sharing of network sources, which stimulates the creativity of software developers and forms the prosperous situation of WEB development platform.
For the WEb development platform, my understanding is as follows:
1. Web-based, Internet-based B/S architecture software. It is also software in its own right, only it is not the final software product, but software for secondary development.
2. Used to realize the development of various business systems, such as CRM, MIS, ERP, OA, etc. Web development platform itself is a secondary development platform, it is different from such development tools as Eclipse, need to write a lot of code to complete each business module, secondary development platform only need to design their own data structure, simple configuration, drag and other operations can complete the development of business system.
3. It can quickly realize the design and production of various reports, including complex charts and reports. The traditional coding development needs to write all kinds of reports, but the development platform can be more simple and easier to configure various reports.
The purpose of using web development platform is to realize resource sharing, save development cost, improve development efficiency and shorten development cycle. Today’s development platforms are mostly non-coded or minimally coded, which serves the purpose. Some (such as lisoft’s rapid development platform) can even reduce the amount of code by 90%, which shows how much efficiency can be improved.
The nature of rapid development platforms
Does web development platform belong to technology platform or business platform? Generally speaking, the technical platform refers to the platform used by technical personnel, and the business platform refers to the platform used by business personnel. So if a Web development platform is easy to learn and use, it boils down to a business platform. If the Web development platform is powerful and requires high technical content, it can be summed up as a technology platform. Clearly, a Web development platform is somewhere between a business platform and a technology platform. How to make web development platform not only powerful, but also easy to learn and use, is the problem that every web development platform designer must face. And on the processing of this problem, I still have to say, force soft platform does in this respect is more successful.
The relationship between Web development platform and development tools
Obviously, web development platforms are not going to replace development tools. But in the development tool on the encapsulation, that is, some general functions are encapsulated, the formation of something similar to an interface, when the user needs these general functions can be very simple call, and cannot meet the function will use the development tool to write code to achieve.
The basic elements of a Web development platform
A good Web development platform generally includes existing items such as drop-down boxes, pop-up dictionaries, date selection boxes, framesets, tabs, and so on. In addition to custom forms, users can make full use of these controls to complete web page customization, to achieve the page layout users want, and add, delete, change, search and other operations on the database, and form modification can run directly without compiling again, because the form designer is also web page implementation. Another feature of the development platform is that the development and use can be carried out at the same time without affecting each other. This feature enables the software to be provided to customers faster, so as to better adapt to customer needs; It also brings convenience for software maintenance, you don’t need to go back and forth between the customer and the company all day, in the company or anywhere in the customer can maintain.
Workflow for the Web development platform
In addition to the form designer, another very important component of the Web development platform is workflow. Most development platforms on the market today have workflows configured through forms. May be I have seen, this approach can achieve effect, but not intuitive, the workflow designer to seek a kind of can not only reach the effect, still can make both developers and users, can be clear at a glance know the process of concrete transfer process, which requires the graphical process design, through the graphical design for each process node, And the configuration of each node, and can let a person see the whole flow chart. And in this respect, lisoft rapid development platform is really achieved, their process is very simple to use. Easy to understand. There may be other platforms that can do this, but I’m not aware of them.
conclusion
In general, Web development platforms are a trend that many programmers are turning to when they get tired of the tedious, monotonous work of programming and seek an efficient, different approach to development. From a leadership perspective, if a product can simplify your development process, save your development costs, improve your development efficiency, and make more money with the least cost, why not?