List of Rapid Application Development tools

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[edit] Cross-Platform Rapid Application Development Tools

  • BriteWorks by BriteSoft is a codeless, diagrammatic, cross platform rapid application development tool. It is a Model Driven, Service Oriented environment for building applicatons from scratch or creating a composite application both without coding or code generation. BriteWorks deals with virtually any business application, including those requiring web services, or workflow and scheduling. Details can be found at BriteSoft
  • Enveria RAD IDE - "Beta Baby" from Kaizen Denki Incorporated
  • eDeveloper by Magic Software Enterprises is a cross-platform (Linux, Unix, (Solaris, HPUX, AIX), System i/iSeries, and Windows) and cross-database (MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, Pervasive, DB2400, XML, IFS, Flat File, MySQL, and ODBC) capable rapid application development and composite application development tool with desktop, web services, client-server and browser-based deployment options. The documentation library for eDeveloper is available on the web[1].
  • NetBeans
  • Revolution Studio is an advanced cross-platform rapid application development tool that delivers executables on Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS X Universal Binary and MacOS Classic.
  • Lazarus is a cross-platform IDE similar to Borland Delphi.
  • LANSA
  • LEONARDI is a model-driven framework for RAD that automates the production of GUIs (RIAs or rich clients). Apps are portable across platforms and environments.

[edit] Desktop Rapid Application Development Tools

[edit] Database Rapid Application Development Tools

  • Clarion is a data-centric Advanced Rapid Application Development (ARAD) tool featuring roundtrip code generation that preserves all of your own hand-written code while allowing you to re-generate your application as often as needed. It provides reusable metadata to quickly create "corporate quality" applications to manage business data
  • FileMaker Pro Advanced
  • Omnis Studio is a cross-platform, Rapid Application Development tool or IDE for creating enterprise and web applications for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X.
  • Velneo
  • Sybase PowerBuilder
  • Xcase Database Design and maintenance tool
  • Oracle Forms

[edit] Embedded Control Rapid Application Development Tools

  • VisSim is a block diagram language for model based embedded system development
  • LabVIEW is a graphical programming language that allows you to program embedded off-the-shelf systems, FPGAs, custom designs

[edit] Web Based Rapid Application Development Tools

  • zeroCode[2]is a RAD that has matured to meet the needs of development teams tasked with creating enterprise-class applications for on-demand business - with out extensive J2EE re-training.
  • CodeCharge Studio Quick build apps on many different languages (ASP/PHP/PERL/CFML/JSP/...) [3]
  • 37 Signals Ruby on Rails
  • Adobe ColdFusion
  • Gigaframe Web Application Code Generator .NET is a Rapid Application Development tool for creating ASP.NET applications from database schemas.
  • GForge Advanced Server a full software development process platform for complete project management and collaboration tool suite with tracking plug-ins for Eclipse IDE as well as Microsoft Visual Studio and other related tools were added to increase developer functionality.
  • iRise is a rapid prototyping platform for defining, reviewing, and collaborating on web-based software applications
  • Dimension 1 is a rapid rule based business application development platform for non-programmers using a spreadsheet like interface
  • Velneo
  • Django
  • Leonardi [4]

[edit] Components based on Rapid Application Development paradigm

  • Add-in Express – Visual RAD tool for developing COM add-ins, smart tags, RTD servers and Excel user defined functions in Visual Studio .NET and Delphi.

[edit] See Also

  • Collaborative development environment (CDE)