Released on: October 7, 2008, 3:55 am

Press Release Author: Chillisoft Solutions

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Now including support for Visual WebGUI, Habanero stamps its
authority as an Enterprise Application Framework for .Net that provides the tools to
produce an agile application from the data layer through to the front-end,
supporting ORM, code generation and runtime UI generation.

Press Release Body: Having established itself as a reputable ORM framework,
Habanero's version 2 beta release by Chillisoft Solutions sees it launch as a full
Enterprise Application Framework that provides free open source tools to produce an
agile application from the data layer through to the front-end, supporting ORM, code
generation and runtime UI generation.

Version two's key new feature is the integration of a ControlFactory structure in
its runtime UI generation layer, allowing the development of an application whose
user interface knows little about its release environment. With little more than
the switch of a configuration, the application can be released either on the desktop
or the web. This has been made possible by the integration of Visual WebGUI by
Gizmox, which successfully simulates the rich controls of Windows Forms and hugely
enhances bandwidth use for data-rich web applications.

Employed with great success in production scenarios with projects of various scales,
Habanero is being used to simplify the development process by streamlining common
operations without limiting the developer's access to flexibility and control.
Using object relational mapping (ORM) to map relational databases to the rich domain
object layer, developers are given the freedom to apply agile techniques, because
the cost of change to the data structure is so substantially reduced. While
experienced developers will understand the convenience of circumventing the usual
implementation of CRUD sql statements, ORMs cater equally well for junior developers
who can develop without needing to understand the complexities of data persistence
and the nuances of supporting multiple database vendors.

Habanero has ventured beyond the limited model of other ORM implementations by
providing a runtime UI generation layer that links up seamlessly with the data and
logic layers. Without compromising separation of concerns, Habanero's UI layer
hugely facilitates change management by holding a set of XML display definitions
that are used to construct runtime grids, forms and controls that map data from the
business objects to controls and enforce business rule validation. This approach
allows for a simple-case front-end to produced incredible quickly, but still
provides for a developer to have full access to the individual controls in order to
assign custom behaviour.

The release of version two includes support for the popular Firebird database.
Along with the existing coverage for MySQL, Microsoft Access and Sql Server, Oracle,
SQLite and PostgreSQL, Habanero includes extraction of the data layer in order to
support custom data sources like an in-memory database, with hugely improves test
coverage performance and allows for prototype applications to be assembled rapidly.
Included with Habanero is the Firestarter tool for reverse engineering mapping
definitions from existing database schemas, managing the definitions and generating
working code solutions.

Web Site: http://www.chillisoft.co.za/habanero

Contact Details: 5 Winston Road, Pietermaritzburg 3201, South Africa
+27 33 342 4864
habanero@chillisoft.co.za