What is the eSuite Devpack?
Today's businesses need to deliver better products and services faster than ever. Increasingly intense global competition, coupled with the need to respond immediately to market forces and changing customer needs, mean diminishing windows of business opportunity for today's organizations. Strategic business applications must be developed and deployed rapidly to exploit these opportunities and gain competitive advantage.
And organizations must provide these applications to an increasingly broad user base. In today's connected world, suppliers, business partners and customers must all be able to participate in business processes. This means supporting dissimilar hardware and software platforms (both servers and clients), network protocols, and more.
The emergence of corporate intranets, extranets and the Internet, in combination with the Java programming language, provides a whole new set of opportunities for rapid development and deployment of strategic applications for competitive advantage, both within and across organizations. To enable our customers to rapidly and cost-effectively exploit these opportunities, Lotus has introduced a unique Java-based developer's toolkit designed explicitly for development and enterprise-wide deployment of interactive, extensible, network-based business solutions with unprecedented speed.
eSuite DevPack, this exciting new offering from Lotus provides a comprehensive set of pre-built, pre-tested, reusable, cross-platform, integrated JavaBeans-based applets, including: Spreadsheet, Chart, Word Processor, Presentation Graphics, Calendar, Universal Address Book, Project Scheduler, E-mail Client, SQL/JDBC data access modules, and a CGI applet -- plus the Lotus InfoBus and InfoCenter technologies that streamline applet integration and customization. Comprehensive documentation, sample code and application templates are also included.
Applications created with eSuite DevPack are:
- More powerful. The eSuite DevPack provides building blocks of key business functionality for creating a new generation of dynamic, interactive strategic corporate applications.
- Cross-platform. All eSuite DevPack applets are written in cross-platform Java and implemented as JavaBeans, so the applications created with them can run on any HTTP server, and are accessible via any Java-enabled client, such as Web browsers, NetPCs, and network computers (NCs). This simplifies enterprise-wide deployment and slashes development costs, allowing organizations to build strategic applications once and deploy them everywhere!
- Interconnectable. The eSuite DevPack is designed for easy data sharing. It provides powerful connectivity tools to back end data through Web standards such as JDBC and CGI, making it easy for organizations to offer shared access to legacy data and PC-based files. In addition, all DevPack applets can dynamically share and exchange data via the Lotus InfoBus (recently adopted by Sun as the standard for data exchange among JavaBeans).
- Programmable. eSuite DevPack applets are easy to customize and/or extend to support specific job requirements. All DevPack applet properties and methods are fully exposed and accessible via standard Web scripting languages like JavaScript and VBScript.
- Extensible. eSuite DevPack applets are architected to let organizations quickly customize their functionality and even extend their capabilities by "snapping on" additional features as needed. Once customized, they can easily and flexibly be used (and reused) as building blocks for interactive network-based applications.
The eSuite DevPack gives you just what you need to rapidly develop and deploy strategic applications enterprise-wide and beyond. And its standards-based, network-centric focus means you can leverage the applications you build again and again as you modify and extend them to meet changing requirements. The result? Rapid development of cost-effective extensible solutions -- for lasting competitive advantage. |