Gupta Team Developer is an integrated development environment for developing business applications

Gupta Team Developer

Gupta Team Developer is used by corporations worldwide to quickly develop missioncritical business applications. It significantly cuts the cost of software development. Gupta Team Developer supports entire teams of developers with it’s built-in repository, version management and team management system. Full object orientation makes code reusability and maintenance easy.

Team Developer: Key Features

Technology Overview

Corporations use team Developer worldwide to quickly develop mission-critical business applications. It significantly cuts the cost of software development, by speeding up the development process by 40% compared to Java, Delphi and VB. This allows for smaller development budgets, faster Time to Market and faster Return on Investment. All together Team Developer brings a major competitive advantage in the software development business, no matter if you are developing internal solutions or software solutions for vertical markets. The key to success in today's business environment is fast, accurate, cost-effective access to information. The key to developing for this business environment is to use a tool capable of leveraging and integrating existing, backend data and systems while it allows you to create high-performance, strategic enterprise applications. Then you can integrate all the data and systems into winning e-Business solutions.

Team Developer Saves Development Time and Cost

Fast 4GL Development
Team Developer’s 4GL development environment significantly reduces development time. Pre-built functions help you to complete complex tasks with just one line of code. The patented outliner provides a highly structured development environment ensuring a new developer can become immediately productive. Most customers say they can develop applications 40% faster in Team Developer over other competing development environments. 40% less cost in software development mean a huge competitive advantage in vertical markets, or a big chance to reduce the application backlog in corporate IT

Intuitive Visual Development Environment (VDE)
View the level of detail you want to see, from the actions of one message to the complete source code. No other IDE has such a structured and easy-to-learn code representation. Developer’s that know languages similar to VB, Java or C++ have a very short learning curve with Team Developer. Team Developer helps to reduce personnel training needs and reduces the time to productivity for new developers. Low training expenses and short learning curve further reduce development cost and increase Return on Investment on IT projects.

Full Object Orientation (OOP)
OOP provides another boost for application development productivity. OOP is a main requirement for effective and efficient application code maintenance. Without OOP development and maintenance of software projects can cost orders of magnitude more than with OOP. Class libraries can be used for code reusability and easy maintenance.

Active Coding Assistant
The Active Coding Assistant significantly reduces typing errors while entering application code, resulting in fewer compiler cycles to create syntax valid code. Programmers using Active Coding Assistant can complete coding applications up to 20% faster. The Active Coding Assistant feature displays a choice of available methods or variables.

Active Debugging Assistant
Easy and intuitive debugging significantly reduces the time to deliver a useable application. New features like Watch Windows ensure that developers don’t miss problem areas in their code. The Auto Watch Window automatically displays variables of a selected line and the previous line before giving a comprehensive overview of the current application status. The Local Watch Window, which displays members currently in scope, and the Quick Info Window, which displays the variable type and value in a tool tip, further help to quickly detect problems and find solutions.

Third-Party Tools
A variety of third-party tools provide class libraries, application modeling techniques and other tools. Class libraries and code generators can greatly reduce development time.

Powerful Database Connectivity
Total backoffice integration at no additional cost has been one of the strength of Team Developer for many years. Team Developer includes connectivity to all major databases like Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and Informix. And non-traditional data formats via OLEDB, and ODBC. Seamless integration of visual objects with data sources speeds up the development process.

Team Development Support
Team management avoids duplicate coding efforts and results in more efficient development efforts. The Team Developer Suite includes a central repository for code check-in/check-out and complete version management. The central repository ensures that no two developers are changing the same code at the same time.

Team Developer Keeps Lifecycle and Maintenance Cost Low

Easy to Read and Understand Code
The lifecycle of a software product in most cases is longer than the average time an employee stays with one company. This means that new developers oftenly need to take over large existing projects. Team Developers code structuring makes it very easy for newcomers to understand large existing applications and add new functionality of do defect fixing with it. This avoids large new investment into new application development when key developers leave the company.

Reduced Deployment Cost
Team Developers multi-tier capabilities allow for cost effective and fast update of application software for every user. Team Developer reduces help-desk efforts and cost. COM+ objects allow the creation of middle-tier business logic for distributed environments. Keeping business logic separate from the user interface reduces the effort for business logic updates. Only central objects need to be changed, not every desktop needs to add new software. Deployment using web applications is even more effective, no piece of software needs to be installed on the users desktop except a browser. This model by far is the most cost effective model for deploying business applications since it completely avoids touching every desktop.

Multi-Tier Architecture
COM+ objects allow the creation of middle-tier business logic for distributed environments. The central COM+ business logic can be called from Windows applications, Web applications or from mobile devices.

Low Effort Version Migration
Gupta integrates new technologies into Team Developer the way that means least effort for developers. This saves large development efforts needed to migrate from one version to the other. For example migrating from Visual Basic to Visual Basic.NET means to rewrite 40% of application code (source: IDC), meaning huge new investments into development. Usually it is very easy to migrate from one version of Team Developer to another even moving from native connectivity to the new OLEDB technology does not mean large code changes.

Offering True Enterprise Integration and Scalability

COM+ Object Generation
Without knowing all the underlying complexities of COM+, developers can create robust COM+ objects to provide middle-tier business logic for distributed environments. The central COM+ business logic can be called from Windows applications, Web applications or from mobile devices. COM+ enhances scalability and reduces deployment and maintenance cost of business applications.

Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) Support
Team Developer fully support MTS which allows you to scale COM+ business objects from a few users to thousands of simultaneous users. This kind of scalability is very helpful when deploying to large Web environments where the application load is hard to preview.

OLE DB Database Connectivity
OLE DB offers support for many enhanced database features. Changing from native connectivity to OLE DB only means adding two lines of code. OLE DB has become the industry standard for database connectivity. It has overcome the performance and functionality issues once present in ODBC.

Team Developer Offers Modern User Interfaces

New Application UI Styles
Intuitive application user interfaces increase user acceptance and adoption of new business software. Your Applications will provide user interfaces that are consistent with other popular Windows applications like MS-Office. This dramatically reduces the effort needed to train users to use new business applications. Some examples are, dockable windows, dockable toolbars with the new flat look that highlights a button when the mouse hovers over it and also displays a tool tip.

Windows XP Support
Team Developer is one of the few VDE’s that allow you to write applications that will run on Windows 98 all the way up to the latest release of Windows XP.

High Performance for Customer Satisfaction
All this development ease and cost savings to you mean very little if your customers have to suffer with a poorly running application. In many 4GL environments, that is the case – but not with Team Developer.

Scale Up and Integrate with Leading Edge Technolgies

Web Services
Utilizing Web Services allows you to rapidly extend your applications to reach out to suppliers and customers as they develop Web Services interfaces. rich-Client code can be combined with Web Services to create distributed applications, including business logic created using Java or any other development system supporting Web Services.

XML
Team Developer gives you all the power you need to implement XML-based applications. Team Developer’s support for COM+ Interface Inheritance allows one to reuse already existing COM+ interface declarations exposed by the MSXML COM Object. Team Developer not only inherits the declaration of an existing interface but also the functionality implemented in the interface.

.NET
Leverage investments into .NET from within Team Developer. It’s easy to call .NET code directly from Team Developer applications and call Team Developer code directly from managed .NET code, by using the .NET Interoperability Services.

A Complete Solution in one Product

Reporting
Team Developer includes rich reporting capabilities. With Report Builder you can quicly and easily create attractive reports and ad-hoc queries for databases. End users can use the GUI to compile the database query and link it to a report/layout. The results of the database query can be exported to MS Excel for example, or integrated into other applications through the ActiveX interface.

Windows and Web Development
Team Developer eliminates the need to develop separate systems for both classic Windows environments and Web browsers. The same application can run on Windows and in a Web browser through the use of Web Extensions, which can significantly lower software deployment costs. Instead of touching every user’s desktop to install a new version, the new version is centrally installed, making it available to all users.

Create and define all your objects once and reuse them as often as you like using the built-in OOP features. And when you want to change the code in some objects, only the class has to be changed. Using Team Developer to create your Web applications substantially reduces the number of HTML files to be managed. Only one application file is registered in the Web Application Manager.

Tight Integration with Microsoft Office
Team Developer can directly embed Office applications into the application screens, such as directly calling Word or Excel to automate form letters or complex calculations. Any ActiveX and COM+ application can be included into Team Developer.

Summary

Team Developer effectively reduces development and deployment cost of business applications. Customers using Team Developer significantly cut their development effort and deployment cost, creating a major competitive advantage for them.

Deployment System Requirements for Server Applications (COM and/or Web)

A Web Deployment License is required for each server that serves TD applications to Web clients.

Intel-based Pentium or higher PC
Windows NT4, 2000 or XP Professional
64 MB RAMv
60 MB hard disk space
Web App Manager is required to serve Web client applications
Web server is required to serve Web client applications
Client software for database server of choice (see above)
Microsoft Transaction Server (COM+) is recommended to serve COM objects

End-User System Requirements

Windows
Intel-based 486 or higher PC
Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000 or XP
16 MB RAM
Web
Any type of machine
Any operating system
HTML 3.0 or above Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 recommended). HTML 4.0 browser is required for style sheets; XML parser required (e.g. MS IE 5) for XML UI components.