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Uniface Seven features extended modelling
Karen Hill
The addition of three - tier support to Uniface Seven, the latest version of Compuware Corp.'s development environment, enables coders to decide if they prefer thin or fat clients.
Uniface Seven, if it performs at the level that we expect, puts Compuware even with the competition with its new ability to support multi - tier environments," said Jim Sinur, vice - president and research area director for application development at Gartner Group Inc. in Stamford, Conn.
Uniface has always been known for being able to support multi - platform, multi - database, multi - GUI. [Uniface Seven] puts [Compuware] in the object - component world and in partitioning they can either do a thin client or a fat client, where before it was fat client only with Uniface Six."
According to Compuware, Uniface Seven -- designed for complex, business - critical applications -- also features extended modelling capabilities and a component - based development environment.
The heart of the Uniface application is starting out with a model," said Dirk Gorter, director of product management for Uniface at Compuware.
So, the focus before you start doing anything is on building...