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Solutions for creating Professional

Web Application

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The scope

In main cases, Web Applications are built manually by using :

Direct programming language: PHP, ASP, JSP… Framework/Platform/API:

Symfony2, Joomla platform, Drupal API…

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Disadvantages

Time consumingLearning curvesReinvent the wheel each time!!

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WAB or Web Application builders

Reduces time to product applicationAllows the re-use of Apps on any project

Dream or Reality?

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Offline WAB

Developed in C, C++, C#, Java

AwareIM, NuBuilder, Zoho

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AwareIM

Java Creation of Content Centric Web Applications Create « Business Object » defined by Attributes Attributes are not exactly a type of input in a form but

more special cases

Offline WAB

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Always cost money (licenses per computer)

Don’t allow real time modification (use submit)

This tools relate often to the generation of specific applications to manipulate internal data of companies (Application Databases). Publication and content display topics are not managed by these tools.

It’s old school, it’s the past

Very limited

Offline WAB

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Online WAB

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Wordpress

No content types, only one type of content: « Blog ».

Define custom fields, which you have to select again on any content…

Very basic

Definitively not a WAB…

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Typo3 Between CMS & Portal (less pages but with a lot of content)

Content elements are inserted in a page

Content elements are not fields, but more like little applications included in the core

A very light form builder

Typo3 doesn’t manage the concept of content types

Any extensions must be coded

Just generic search

Not a WAB

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Concrete5

Manages page types and allows the addition of attributes (few & basic). Attributes are not fields but more like little modules.

A page type is the selection of HTML structure of the page

Like WP, all turns around a unique « Blog » content type

Includes a basic form extension

Basic search features with one text field

Not a WAB

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Joomla + K2 Creates « extra » fields and assigns them to a « Group »

Assign a group of fields to a category

Any content created in this category will have fields of the group assigned to the category

Lots of « require » fields defined by K2 that you cannot hide

Basic form features (no require, no validation rules…)

For each contents, all « extra » fields values saved in JSON in one table field

Basic search features Not a WAB

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eZ Publish

Manages « Class » (content types) defined by attributes (fields)

Lot of attributes but always basic

Basic generic search features, but EzFinder exists

All attribute values are saved in a unique table…

In 2011, extends its notion of packages to « Content Class Export » > export content types

Not a WAB, but in the right track…

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Drupal In Drupal 7, only CCK part in the core

Content types (by default page & story)

Import / Export Content types

Drupal 6 had a separate table linked to one content type, no more in Drupal 7, all field values are saved in one table

View module (Search & List features)

Some advanced form features but not complete

No interface to design contents & lists

No “Application” concept

Not a WAB, but in the right track…

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Joomla + SEBLOD 2

The first real WAB

Form & Content Types

List & Search Types

Control of the storage for each fields (tables, JSON… multi format of storage)

Multi-objects (Articles, Categories, Users, VM Products, Hikashop Product), can be extended

Just 3 examples : a simulator, a form & a search

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So…

What can be considered as Web Application Builder?

Joomla + SEBLOD is the most advanced solution for making applications through a web interface and it allows to export and import it in 1 click!

Joomla + SEBLOD is the union between the best CMS architecture (OOP & MVC) and the best flexible tool to build Web Applications

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Conclusion

JOOMLA IS A PROFESSIONAL TOOL

TO ANSWER

THE MOST COMPLEX NEEDS