Clarion ASP

SoftVelocity's Clarion/ASP templates generate Active Server Pages (ASP) web applications which provide query, navigation, and editing procedures for client/server databases over the web, increasing the productivity of web designers and enabling business application developers to easily “translate” behaviours from line of business desktop applications to the web.

The generated pages integrate into existing sites both in looks and via links to and from existing pages of the site. The code produced additionally includes important features necessary for public and high volume sites such as the ability to view only the parts of a database “owned” by an individual user. The resulting applications are highly reliable, containing sophisticated error checking, yet tight and very scalable.

There are three important things that Clarion developers should know about the Clarion/ASP development paradigm:

By providing a system relying on runtime HTML templates and style sheets for the browser client layout, Clarion/ASP completely separates the User Interface from the Application and Business logic. This means the developer is free to concentrate on the application, and the web designer can make the page fit into the existing web design via HTML formatting and style sheets. Either side can make changes without affecting the other, yet not lose them at generation time.

The code generation system itself is template driven (of course). The developer doesn’t have to know anything about ASP, VBScript, ADO, HTML design, or Cascading Style Sheets to produce a fully functional, fully customised application. As the first SoftVelocity Clarion add-in to produce non-Clarion applications, this is a transition point to a time in which Clarion developers will take their data dictionaries and decide what language to generate by deciding what target they wish to deploy to.

The system is completely extensible, via embed points. In this case, however, your embeds must consist of VBScript and/or ADO/SQL statements. The system, as is, is very complete, but as always, Clarion provides unlimited options for the developer. (Note: if maintaining both desktop and ASP targets in a single app, ASP generation ignores the Clarion embed code, and Windows OS generation ignores the ASP embed code).

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