QAFE

New QAFE Spring release, get 2.1 today!

michiel — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:47:17 +0000

What better way to celebrate spring than with a fresh QAFE release! Get the new edition for free here and discover all the new and enhanced features.

QAFE 2.1 Release Notes

Features QAFE Platform

* Performance enhancement startup of QAFE
* Data grouping in visual design (on top of visual grouping by means of named panels)
* Introduction of Timer Events: to execute event when a timer expires
* Cleaning up code and making code base smaller. Less dependency on thirdparty libraries.
* Defaulting to Java 6.
* WebService support directly to business-actions.
* QAFE Connector Pack: Oracle Policy Automation connector.
* Tested and verified against Oracle WebCenter.
* Use of Less for styling applications (the C++ of CSS).
* Upgrade of the default style.
* Several Stability and Performance fixes

Features QAFE QAML Builder

* QAFE One Click Application: Create Master-Detail (Detail, Detail..) screens in seconds!
* Service Enabling for QAFE from Database and Java.
* Visual design of event flow.
* Visual design of Business Action flow.
* Verification with Oracle Eclipse Enterprise Pack.
* QAML Application Overview.
* Integration of the QAML Generator functionality, so that QAML Builder is one complete environment.

Features QAFE Forms Modernization

* Handling of ORA- error messaging (supporting wildcards).
* Introduction of QAFE Oracle Forms Statistics to get insight in the complexity of forms.
* Handling Forms 4.5 also by pre-analyses.
* Many more improvements on layout and processing of data.
* Validation of SQL Code against database before processing to correct layer in QAFE.

If you’ve downloaded earlier versions of QAFE, 2.1 is the release you will want to download today, simply go to http://registration.qafe.com for instant access!

This is it: new QAFE Training!!

michiel — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:54:27 +0000

Everything you always wanted to know about QAFE in 3 days! This is your chance! After this training you will be able to build applications from scratch, organize your project for reusability and deploy your applications (on virtually the same day you come up with a new idea!).

More information – or to immediately reserve your place?
For more information, or direct reservation to secure your place for this great opportunity, mail training@qafe.com. We’ll contact you for further details.

Target audience

Developers: Java or Oracle developers. Web developers. Technical consultants.

Prerequisite

Understanding of basic XML. Preferably has some web development experience. Using Eclipse as an IDE would also be preferred. Level can vary from beginner to expert level developer.

Description

This course will focused on developing QAFE Applications from scratch using QAML and the QAML Builder tool. The developer will learn how the several tiers integrate with each other, how the data retrieval works, how to create business actions and services. Control statements will also handled. The course focus is to have the developers create applications instantly, starting out from simple, to complex, maintainable applications.

Topics

Presentation tier

Components
- Styling
- Conditional styling
Events
Built-ins
Control flow
Global events

Business-tier

Setup
Combining several services

Integration-tier

Setup
Input variable mapping

Resource-tier

Database resource
- Statements
Java resource
Spring resource

Application Configuration

Simple application
Auto merge possibilities
Security
Multilingual support

Deployment/Tooling

QAML Builder

Duration

3 days, followed by a small theoretical exam on the last day in order to become a Certified QAFE Developer.

The course starts at 09:00AM until 04:30PM.

Trainers

Rokesh Jankie, Reyco Kha, Ravi Nair

Goal

Build applications from scratch, learn to organize your project for reusability, deploy your applications, understand the vision of QAFE.

Costs

1700 EUR (excl Taxes). Including three days of lunch, snacks, drinks, tea and coffee.

What you get

The software and a trial license on a memory stick to continue development after the course.

Location
The course will be held at
Qualogy B.V. Headquarters,
De Bruynkopsstraat 9,
2288EC, Rijswijk.
Phonenr: +31 70319500
Email: training@qafe.com

If the number of attendees exceeds 10 persons, we are able to relocate to another location.

Dates

Every last week of the month, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

- 27, 28, 29 March 2012
- 24, 25, 26 April 2012
- 29, 30, 31 May 2012
- … … … etc.

If needed we can deviate from this.

Google Chrome for Android running QAFE using Google Webtoolkit Engine

michiel — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:36:47 +0000

On the 29th of February 2012 Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona.

Here’s the video:

Eric Schmidt speaks at Mobile World Congress 2012

Besides sharing his vision, the new Google Chrome for Android was shown. That was really interesting. Because of that I started the QAFE demo environment in Chrome on my Google Nexus S running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.3) on the T-Mobile 3G network. The performance was great! Really snappy and fast!!

This promises to be a really bright future for web applications on mobile platforms! Keep up the good work Google!

Eventhough this QAFE version is running flawlessly on this new mobile browser, the QAFE team sets the bar even higher for mobile support with native look and feel for the upcoming releases of the QAFE Platform.

How QAFE complies with Gartners recommendations for Oracle Forms Modernization and Migration

michiel — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:11:16 +0000

Recently Gartner published this recommendation for Oracle Forms Modernization and Migration. Key Findings and Recommendations learn that Application Development organizations should:

1. Update to a supported version to gain advantages in centralized management and deployment.

2. Modernize and integrate SOA and other middleware best practices and infrastructures (specifically Oracle’s Fusion Middleware stack and Java development tools).

3. Migrate next-generation development projects to industry-dominant technologies (for example, Java, Microsoft .NET and open-source software) to align with industry best practices in the future.

With QAFE you effectively tackle the second and third recommendation. QAFE not only supports a Service Oriented Architecture, it offers great tools to get an instant overview of your Architecture. On top of which – point 3 – QAFE is industry-dominant in more than one way: it helps you to go cloud on basically any given platform, while being able to render applications to any given web technology.

This makes QAFE an instantly deployable, future-proof platform for your entire Enterprise Applications Development roadmap. With Oracle Forms, to quote Gartner’s bottom line “as a supporting player, bridging the gap between older deployed systems that need to integrate and interoperate with newer platforms and application architectures”.

To address Gartner’s first recommendation in closing: Update to a supported version to gain advantages in centralized management and deployment. In our demo center in The Netherlands we have QAFE running on an Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, integrated with Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Policy Automation and Oracle NoSQL: proving that QAFE and Oracle are what Oracle calls ‘Engineered to work together’.

So whether you you decide to move ahead with Oracle in centralized management, or you prefer to reinvigorate Oracle Forms on an other platform, QAFE has got your back. Call us anytime for a demonstration, +31 70 319 5000, or use this contact form for more information on Oracle Forms Modernization via email.

High Speed Oracle Forms Modernization

michiel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:11:02 +0000

On your marks? Get ready… set… go! Answer this: How much time and effort goes into modernizing Oracle FMB’s to forms that are ready for any browser, any user, on any device? In this video we show you it only takes 4 minutes! And that is because we don’t want to rush you watching…

As the video demonstrates the QAFE Oracle Forms Modernization does most of the job for you. And it offers great extra’s:

Reuse 60-70% of the code
Apply filterrules to make the output cleaner (remove all no longer applicable / needed code). A new feature to improve the quality of the output code.
Use the output and edit/run directly in QAML Builder
Provide your styling (by means of CSS)
Bulk process Forms after a ruleset is defined
Forms Analysis for a better impact analysis

The end result – even without any manual code changes afterwards – is a set of working data-aware applications. Logic in the Form is automatically placed in the new architecture on the correct level (in a Service Oriented Way).

Find out how QAFE Oracle Forms Modernization does most of the job for you.

Where pieces of logic are not reusable, QAFE provides them as comments in the QAML code so that the developer can manually modify those bits. Also QAFE offers many additional features to enhance the forms, beyond what is currently possible in Oracle’s client-server infrastructure. And thanks to the automated modernization you have all the time in the world to make those enhancements.

Ready to instantly exceed the CIO’s expectations?
The automated Oracle Forms Modernization process is a QAFE application, for details on how to obtain a license for your (or your clients) business(es) please call + 31 70 319 5000, or contact us to find out how QAFE Oracle Forms Modernization does most of the job for you.

LeWeb and QAFE: Social, Local and Mobile

michiel — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:51:34 +0000

In one of last weeks LeWeb Keynotes, Google’s Executive Board Member Eric Schmidt, talks about Social, Local and Mobile (see this link http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/07/schmidt-le-web-video/). Three major components for the next generation of applications. QAFE already includes two of those three.

GeoLocation
If turned on in the QAFE Platform, the QAFE Application requests GeoLocation information from the user. GeoLocation enables businesses to create lots of new kinds of smart web applications.

Mobile
Based on device detection QAFE opens windows in fullscreen and removes all unneccesary elements. As the internet is accessed by a growing number of Mobile Devices, we are continuously improving this part of QAFE to make sure our platform offers the best combination of UX and Performance.

Social is next
See the roadmap for 2012 http://www.qafe.com/discover-qafe/qafe-framework/roadmap/ and discover what else is already included, if you register for a free trail on http://registration.qafe.com

QAFE Platform 2.0 is here!

michiel — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:29:19 +0000

Great news: as of today QAFE Platform 2.0 is available for download! The new release provides a number of new and enhanced features for an even even greater productivity boost. Also, besides the fact that we made improvements on the QAFE Platform itself, this new version introduces the new QAML Builder which makes it really easy for any developer to create Modern Enterprise Applications.

The enhanced QAML Builder now allows you to graphically edit the event-handling and business-actions ánd lets you directly zoom-in to the native logic (Java or Database). Furthermore, the QAML Builder follows the Maven build standards, so that the result will be a Web Application ready for any JEE WebContainer implementation (Google App Engine or the known app servers).

Release notes:

QAFE 2.0
* Cluster Awareness for AppEngine Edition using native MemCache
* Performance optimizations
* Several improvements on UI components (datagrid, slider)
* Improvement on style processing
* Stability fixes

QAML Builder 1.3
* Fully graphically design and create the application: Events, Business Actions and Services
* Integration with the QAML Generator 1.3
* Embedded appserver
* Maven based, so fully extendable
* Prebuilt Eclipse Environment containing all necessary plugins

QAML Generator 1.3
* Database services can be combined
* Stability fixes

If you’ve downloaded earlier versions of QAFE, 2.0 is the release you will want to download today (request a new Trial License file via info@qafe.com). If you haven’t downloaded QAFE yet, simply go to http://registration.qafe.com for instant access!

Google Developer Day 2011 Berlin was amazing!

michiel — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:56:48 +0000

Google Developer Day 2011 was a great opportunity to show QAFE to developers and get some instant feedback. We, QAFE team, are true Google Webtoolkit fans and we showed what we did with that technology. Furthermore, we made it really easy to deploy to App Engine (App Engine has some restrictions which might result in serious code refactoring). We took care of the restrictions so that everybody can deploy to App Engine in a matter of seconds!

The developer Day really was not about sales. We got usual feedback and some very good questions.

The QAFE showcase was the QAFE Runtime, the Technology Independent implementation (in this case using Adobe Flex) and the Developer Environment. The Eclipse IDE was extended with the latest QAML Builder Plugin, which not only has a drag-n-drop from the UI but also for the Service Oriented Architecture, integrating with resources. The fact that the this was graphically shown, was a huge surprise for many. QAFE workspace is fully maven based, so having unit tests/selenium or debugging is quite easy. Also, not having compile time, but a simple reload of the applications, was an eye-opener for many visitors to our sandbox location.

In between giving demonstrations, we had some time to visit some of the sessions, which were of excellent quality. See: http://www.google.com/events/developerday/2011/berlin/agenda.html Especially Eric Bidelman’s session with the teasing title “These Aren’t the Sites You’re Looking For: Modern HTML5 Web Apps ” was excellent. Another one was about BigQuery, live demos of the new GoogleTV, HTML5, Android, etc. All about what we make of the web, and we still have a lot to do: for developers next year will be even more interesting!

For pictures of GDD11, and to connect with us on Google Plus, see: https://plus.google.com/108191651333422386424/

QAFE on Google Developer Day 2011 #GDD11

michiel — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:05:59 +0000

Is anyone going to the Google Developer Days 2011 in Berlin this weekend ? If so, we can meetup. QAFE was invited to showcase in the Developer’s Sandbox. We’ll be there from early morning until the end…

BTW, If you are not there, I’ll try to make some pictures and share it with you (Google style also of course on https://plus.google.com/112797501883261863370/).

Regards,
QAFE-team

QAFE & Agile

michiel — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:29:27 +0000

At Oracle OpenWorld/JavaOne 2011, there was a presentation by Adam Bien. The subject was on “Real World Java EE Patterns Rethinking Best Practices” (here’s the book).

One of the interesting points made, was about the fact that customers don’t pay you as a developer to create an architecture that is ready for any situation. The customer pays you for the solution and you as a developer to focus on that.

Why would you create a whole architecture with Delegates, DOA, Service Locator if you are really not using it. Furthermore, JPA’s EntityManager is already quite powerful. Why make it more complex ?

We, QAFE Team, agree with Adam. Don’t use Design Patterns for the sake of Design Patterns, but only when there is a real need for it. The developer should apply the Agile way of developing where you continuously refactor code where necessary.

QAFE supports this idea in technical implementation but still considers the Design Patterns. Creating Classes and structures based on Design Patterns can be very cumbersome. But what if this architecture is already defined for you and you just have to use it and focus on your deliverables? That’s exactly what QAFE supports.