InterSystems Corporation has announced the immediate availability of CACHE 2007 with innovative technologies for rapid Web application development. This new version of the CACHE post-relational database introduces InterSystems Zen, a framework for building rich platform-independent Web applications, and Jalapeno, another new component that aims to eliminate object-relational mapping for Java programmers, reducing their development cycles by at least 40 percent.
Zen includes an extensive library of pre-built components, including grids, tables, and selection trees, that enables the quick creation and easy management of complex processes, says the company. As a result, developers can easily create Web applications with the same highly responsive and rich user interfaces as sophisticated desktop solutions.
With Zen, CACHE 2007 offers an extension to AJAX technology for RIA development. CACHE’s advanced security model is embedded into Zen components, alleviating one common headache for Web developers, said the company. In addition, Zen’s object-based extensibility makes it possible to extend pre-built components or, if preferred, utilise totally new code developed in-house for fast, easy customisation to fulfill enterprise-specific requirements. Zen also utilises a “shared object” client/server data model that improves developer productivity by eliminating the tedium of parsing XML.
The Jalapeno, software component provides the capability to persist plain old Java objects while eliminating the need for object-relational mapping. According to the company, Jalapeno enables Java developers to work in the Java-centric development environment that they prefer and automatically persist objects in the high-performance CACHE database.
CACHE 2007 also claims to offer the flexibility needed for Java developers to build database-independent applications with Jalapeno and is available on Windows, Linux, Mac, UNIX and OpenVMS platforms. Pricing ranges from USD 220 to USD 1,380 per user, depending on configuration.
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