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Introduction to Servoy

Servoy is an application development and deployment environment heavily focused on database applications. With Servoy you can build front-ends to databases in minutes - without having to write code. Servoy is a revolutionary rapid application development (RAD) suite that combines ease-of-use with enterprise scalability. Servoy's intuitive and easy-to-use interface allows both professional developers and non-developers to create powerful desktop applications; database front-ends; data entry; and reporting systems.

With Servoy, workgroups no longer need disconnected desktop databases for data entry; Crystal Reports for reporting; or installation of JDBC or ODBC drivers on each client. Servoy combines all this functionality into one powerful unified environment - thus saving development time, virtually eliminating end-user deployment hassles, and lowering both maintenance and support costs.

The Servoy product line consists of:

Servoy Developer
Servoy Developer consists of a powerful graphic user interface (GUI) designer - fully event driven and scriptable using JavaScript - that enables to you create complete solutions.

Servoy Smart Client
Servoy Smart Client is a rich Java zero deployment component of the Servoy suite of products that runs finished solutions built with Servoy Developer.

Servoy Web Client
Servoy Web Client is a 100% HTML client that enables you to run finished solutions built with Servoy Developer using a web browser .

Servoy Headless Client
Servoy Headless Client enables you integrate data and business logic (Servoy scripts) in JSP pages, Servlets and Java applications.

Servoy Server
Servoy Server handles database server connections, Servoy Client concurrency and client server communication.

Servoy Runtime
Servoy Runtime is a stand alone version of Servoy. It has a built-in Sybase database engine and can be run locally or from a cd.

Servoy Offline
Servoy Offline can be run without a live connection to a backend database. Sybase Mobilink is used to synchronize the data with Servoy Server.

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