Developing Without Reinventing The Wheel

Developing Without Reinventing The Wheel

Integrating proven model-based design with large-scale reusable business objects, Obsydian provides developers with a powerful object oriented environment. This enables the rapid design and construction of complex applications without the cost of becoming proficient at the many technologies (clients, middleware, database, transactions, threads, servers, processes) required for developing client-server applications.

Pretested Components Mean Less Trial And Error

Equally important, Obsydian's reusable objects are pretested, ensuring the highest quality standards with much less trial and error. All told, developers get a significant jump start on application construction, and with Obsydian's automatic code generation, concentrate more on user needs and less on the task of technology implementation.

To begin the actual development process,large-scale business objects are selected from an extensive collection of class libraries - using Obsydian's powerful Object Browser to identify the most suited objects - and mapped to the application model. Obsydian's class libraries contain objects covering the gamut of business needs:

large-scale business objects reflecting the most common patterns seen in commercial applications
functional business objects that support security, data replication, business calendars, etc.
components that enhance the user interface, for example, GUI controls

A growing number of software companies around the world are further expanding the class libraries available to Obsydian users.

Already, there are third-party class libraries containing objects for AS/400 and Windows NT technologies, application package integration, wizards, systems management and application templates. Many more are on the way - including objects for exploiting technology in areas such as imaging, telephony, multimedia, internet and data warehousing.

You can, of course, also create your own reusable objects to match the unique requirements of your business and further improve development effectiveness.

Martin van Dongen, R&D Manager, Synobsys B.V.
"The way Obsydian enables us to engineer applications with its business objects, provides us with demonstrated productivity and quality gains which are second to none. The ability to create your own business objects enables us to handle even the most complex functions, from hand held terminals to AS/400 objects to Windows NT services. I have never seen a tool being this productive and flexible at the same time."

Bigger is better
Some application development tools may allow you to rapidly create end-user applications, but when change is required, all of the hard work put into creating the first application cannot be reused. with Obsydian, the model-based approach enables developers to create large-scale applications that may easily be modified from a single model.