The Platypus.js is a platform for rapid development of enterprise-level JavaScript applications.
Platypus.js is a server side JavaScript platform designed on top of JavaEE 7+ technologies and Nashorn JavaScript engine.
Platypus.js comprises both asynchronous IO model and reasonable use of multithreading with only few intensivly used threads.
Platypus.js provides a developer with libraries needed to develop complete and ready for market applications.
In general, two programming languages are used while developing Platypus.js applications:
- JavaScript (ECMA-262-3 standard) for application logic implementation both on server side and client side.
- Sql for accessing relational databases.
Applications creation, editing, deployment, debugging and maintenance all may be performed using the Platypus.js IDE.
The Platypus.js IDE includes following development tools:
- Database structure visual editor.
- Sql queries visual editor.
- JavaScript code editor.
- ORM configuration visual editor.
- User interface forms visual editor.
The platform offers a set of features, making development process extremely productive:
- AMD JavaScript modules loader on server side, in browser and in Java SE Platypus.js client.
- Server side JavaScript modules within IoC paradigm with LPC (Local procedure calls) asynchronous interactions.
- Parallel execution scheme of JavaScript code using standard Java thread pools.
- JavaScript modules automatic global dependencies resolving as well as AMD dependencies resolving.
- Sql queries with named parameters and Sql clauses re-use.
- ORM (Object-Relation Mapping) for JavaScript with automatic inter-entities references resolving.
- Cross-platform Java SE as well as HTML5 browser UI, sharing the same code and the layout.
- The UI widgets which directly interact with the data model, allowing implementation of a CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete) user interface with visual configuration and without or just a little coding.
- Built-in security support, including users authentication and authorization, constraints of access to application resources.
- Application database schema structure and applicaton data migrations tools.
Build instructions may be found at https://github.com/altsoft/PlatypusJS/blob/master/build-instructions.md