High Demand for Web Editions of the VARCHART Components

 

Increasingly more prospective customers try the JSF and ASP.NET editions of NETRONIC’s VARCHART products. Is this an implication of the increasing trend of the application market towards web technology?

There is a wide range of reasons for the increase of web applications. Enterprises increasingly cross-link their projects and teams, and cooperation on international levels is growing. This requires simultaneous access to the same project, unfailingly presenting the most recent state of the project at any time. Web applications in addition minimize installation costs, since installations on the client side have become near to non-existent. In addition, new concepts to provide software, such as SaaS (Software as a Service) become increasingly interesting to enterprises. Not to have all products on-site, but to provide versatile software on demand which meets exactly the requirements becomes increasingly important today.

Compared to classical applications that only run on a client, web applications up to now involved a big drawback: usually, they only offer restricted options to interactively modify data.

In contrast to this, the latest ASP.NET edition of VARCHART XGantt was enhanced by comfortable interaction features based on JavaScript and Ajax. Apart from completely interactive scrolling and an in-place editor, a new calendar control and a spin control are available in the new version 4.2 for editing numerical values.

In terms of Java, VARCHART JGantt offers two ways to develop web applications. First, VARCHART JGantt applications can be generated as applets. Applets run on browsers and merely require Java to have been installed previously, while no other installations are needed. Applets allow to access the total range of interactions of the VARCHART JGantt JavaBean. You can find online samples on our website that demonstrate how easy it is. If you start them, Java will automatically be detected on the client computer. If it is not available, the user will be asked if it should be installed for free. Then the samples are downloaded and the user can try their functions.

As a second option, web applications can be generated by using the JSF edition. Although the volume of interactions is somewhat reduced, you will receive brilliant visualizations of your data without having to install anything on the client in return. Merely a JavaScript enabled browser is required.