Why eQ!^TM

Extensible, Maintainable and Portable:
With the eQ!^TM Foundation, developers focus on building pure Business Components that represent essential business requirements, without generating the usually extensive code required to support underlying technologies such as J2EE or framework based delivery mechanisms (EJB, Swing, JSP/Servlet, Web Services and frameworks such as Struts). Instead, the eQ!^TM Foundation supplies pre-written adapters, that through simple configuration, glue your business objects to the delivery technology or technologies of choice. Now that your business objects are free from code that binds their use to a specific delivery technology, they are fully portable for use in applications throughout the enterprise, and are free to work with both current and emerging delivery technology standards.

Efficient:
The proven and prepackaged components included with the eQ!^TM Foundation provide the fundamentals needed to develop most applications, such as data access logic, transactions, validation, symbolic interface, error handling and logging. In addition to these capabilities, the eQ!^TM Foundation also supplies powerful features available no where else. These features include:

• A robust Persistence mechanism that works with relational databases and other storage systems.
• An extensive "Collections" feature that handles complex, 1 to many, many to many and many to N-many relationships automatically -- without coding!
• A unique, easy to learn and use declarative XML scripting engine that allows anyone to make application modifications and changes -- without Java coding or expensive Java resources -- even within conventional frameworks such as Struts!
• eQ!^TM even includes a tool that creates your core Business Components for you - without coding!
  

To stay competitive in today's IT environment, you need to leverage your resources wisely.
The eQ!^TM Foundation provides a flexible, "architect friendly" development environment that significantly reduces resource, timeline and maintenance requirements by allowing applications to be primarily "configured" rather than written from scratch. The eQ!^TM Foundation frees architects and developers to focus on building business solutions rather than building and rebuilding the same underlying functionality again and again, while promoting open standards, best practices and seamless integration to your existing enterprise technologies.

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How eQ!^TM Works

The following presentations give an overview of eQ!^TM and how it works with the various delivery technologies:

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eQ!^TM Frequently Asked Questions