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Date: Monday, July 07, 2008
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Web Relational Blocks Software, Personal Edition (WebRB-PE), from IBM alphaWorks, is a browser-based visual editor and run-time environment that enables developers to visually assemble Web applications without adding any imperative code.

WebRB-PE is made for developers of "enterprise" Web applications: multi-page applications, containing non-trivial GUI (graphical user interface) and business logic, whose data reside in relational databases.

Page designs are executed in a standard Web browser, running as standard Web applications.

WebRB increases Web developer productivity in the following ways:

• The application's GUI is developed visually by dragging HTML widgets off a palette. The entire application is assembled in the visual editor.
  


• The 'code, test, and debug' development cycle is improved because applications are directly executed from the visual editor.
  

Because only a small set of blocks is required for starting a working application, blocks can be added, removed, or rewired at any time, and the application can be immediately validated and re-executed.

WebRB requires no user installation. It runs as a service on a machine that hosts a user's WebRB applications and database tables.

Using a standard Firefox 1.5 browser, a developer assembles each page of a WebRB application by laying out various HTML widgets. Then the developer adds Model (database) blocks and Algebra (business logic) blocks and connects them to the HTML widgets to form the full page.

Finally, the developer assembles the application by specifying page-to-page navigation. Page designs are uploaded to the server using XML and are saved in the server database.

The application may then be executed using any client Web browser that connects to the server.

Follow this link to the download page.

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