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Browsersoft Ships the eQ! Foundation, Revolutionizes Enterprise e-business Development. Early Adopters of the Browsersoft eQ! Foundation Increase Productivity and Extend the Reach of Java throughout the Enterprise. Shawnee Mission, KS. Tuesday, December 03, 2002 Browsersoft Inc. today announced the commercial release of their eQ!ä Foundation, the first declarative development framework for Java that gives mainstream application developers the ability to build enterprise-class e-business applications with little to no Java coding or expertise. Early adopters of the eQ!ä Foundation, including Universal Underwriters Group, a member of Zurich Financial Services, have already begun to tap into the significant business and developer productivity benefits provided by this revolutionary approach to e-business application development. Browsersoft's new offering marks a dramatic departure from traditional Rapid Application Development approaches, and technologies such as code generation tools. Using the eQ! Foundation, developers focus their time defining quality business components that are critical to the success of applications throughout the enterprise. The eQ! Foundation then combines robust services with an easy-to-learn configuration environment that allows developers to build and deploy applications with little to no coding! This declarative approach to development not only focuses resources toward solving the business, rather than technical requirements of application solutions, but creates a valuable library of business components that are fully reusable, even as Java standards and vendor technologies evolve. According to Joel Willsey, Application Architect for Universal Underwriters Group, "The eQ!ä Foundation is a powerful, flexible and easy to use development environment that has significantly reduced our application delivery time frames. In fact, one application was re-engineered and deployed as a multi-tiered Java application in significantly less time than was required to develop the original single tiered application using VB and Visual Studio." Mike Ballou, Enterprise Architect for the company added, "The eQ!ä Foundation allows us to focus on building business solutions, and to bring those solutions quickly into production with minimal training and maintenance! We have yet to discover any comparable Java-based solution that provides productivity gains like the eQ!ä Foundation." According to Analyst Mark Driver of the Gartner Group, "increased productivity will be a critical driving factor for the success of Java developers as the market matures and they are pressured to deliver quality solutions in competitive timeframes". In response to this critical message, the eQ!ä Foundation was engineered to drive significant gains in productivity while empowering a broad spectrum of users, from experienced Java architects and developers, to those with little to no previous Java experience. Providing a common structure for building and extending applications, the eQ!ä Foundation addresses many of the common pain points found in today's IT departments, including the expense of developing internal architectures or investing in otherwise constraining and inflexible "code generation" tools. The eQ!ä Foundation's component-based declarative approach, and adherence to the best practices of MVC, makes the eQ!ä Foundation both standards-based and flexible. This also means eQ!ä works seamlessly with development tools such as IDEs, deployment tools such as Application Servers, Business Rule Generators, Frameworks such as Struts and other infrastructure found throughout an enterprise. Browsersoft is providing a complete evaluation download of the eQ!ä Foundation that includes a "Getting Started" guide, and a comprehensive "Parts Store" demonstration application with walkthrough from http://www.browsersoft.com/.
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