Servoy is both a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool and a deployment platform. Using industry standard components and protocols, Servoy offers a scalable, secure and stable enterprise-level computing platform, while at the same time offering unparalleled developer productivity.
Servoy Design Principles
The Servoy platform is built around the following principles:
Scalable, Secure & Stable
The Servoy platform is designed from the ground up to provide a scalable, secure and stable platform. Servoy builds on proven industry standards that are combined together and made easy to use. It provides out of the box clustering support, database connection pooling and active data management
Agile development
Out of the box productivity:
Servoy brings 4GL-like productivity, without the usual limitations that come with 4GL. From a [single codebase|Single codebase] solutions can be deployed on any platform, any database, on any device and in the deployment model of your choice. Features like Security, ... are built in, though fully configurable
WYSIWYG UI Design:
The Servoy Developer IDE comes with a full-featured, What You See Is What You Get User Interface designer, to visually create UI's.
Automatic databinding:
Business Logic scripting:
Extensive built-in scripting library:
Instant Developer feedback:
Modular & Object oriented development:
Database, platform and device agnostic development:
Backwards compatibility:
Single codebase
Cross platform:
Application built on the Servoy platform can be deployed to all modern operating systems, including windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris etc., without the need to write or compile platform specific code.
Multi client:
An application developed in Servoy can be run using one or more of the different types of clients that Servoy offers:
- Servoy Smart Client: a native client
- Servoy Web Client: a browser-based, 100% HTML, CSS & JavaScript client
- Servoy Headless Client: a server-side client, without UI that exposes all business logic of the application programatically
- Servoy Batch-processor Client: a server-side client to automate tasks in the background
- Servoy Runtime Client: .....
While each client has it's specific pro's and con's,
Cross device:
Through the different clients that Servoy offers, applications built using the Servoy technology can run on a multitude of devices, including tablets, desktops, laptops and mobile phones.
Database agnostic:
Due to Servoy's incorporated ORM (Object Relational Mapping ) layer that provides an easy to use API for all interaction between the actual implementation of the data-layer (database x, y or z) and the application, any application created with Servoy is out of the box database agnostic, meaning that it can be deployed on any database.
The ORM layer exposes the components of the data-layer of the application as objects with an easy to use API for interaction (standard CRUD operations and more) and allows for easy linking of UI elements like fields and grids to the data-layer, eliminating the need for manually writing SQL statements.
Deployment model agnostic:
Whether in the Cloud (public or private) or on Premises, whether in Client-Server or stand-alone setup, whether single or multi-tenant (SaaS ), Servoy supports all these deployment models out of the box. The development of applications in Servoy is to a great extend agnostic to the deployment model and where differentiation is needed (for example single vs. multi-tenant) this differentiation can be incorporated within the same code-base.
Easy deployment
Zero installation:
Servoy application do not have to be installed on the client machine. In case of the Servoy Smart Client, the application will automatically download and install itself, by accessing just a URL on the Servoy Application Server from the client machine.
Auto update:
Remote management:
Built-in versioning:
Open and extend able
Open source:
Native plugin API:
Extensive public API:
Standards based
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