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DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA) offers software developers an excellent solution for database applications development. DB Visual ARCHITECT is an Object-Relational Mapping tool which provides an easy-to-use environment bridging between object model, data model and relational database.
DB-VA not only empowers you the visual modeling capability for performing both logical and physical data design, but also automates the roundtrip mapping between object model and data model.
Developers save enormous amounts of time using DB-VA to manage the coding of SQL and JDBC transparently with Plain Old Java Objects (POJO), as DB Visual ARCHITECT empowers software designers to perform roundtrip engineering of a relational database into a Class Diagram, and to an Entity Relationship Diagram and vise versa. Likewise designers can also create a database from entity relational models or class models visually on the fly.
DB-VA also generates a cost-effective, reliable, scalable and high-performance object to relational mapping layer. The generated mapping layer includes the support of transaction, cache and other optimized features. DB-VA increases the productivity and significantly reduces the risks of developing the relational mapping layer manually.
Main features:
Automate the Mapping Between Java Objects to RDBMS Tables
DB Visual ARCHITECT helps mapping between Java objects to relational database. This act not only preserves the data, but also the state, foreign/primary key mapping, difference in data type and business logic. Developers are no longer necessary to handle those tedious tasks.
Re-engineering Application Based on Legacy Database
DB Visual ARCHITECT allows you to reverse database (DB Reverse) tables through JDBC into UML models. You can form Class Diagram from the reversed models and redesign the legacy database without pain.
Multiple Database Support
DB Visual ARCHITECT promote easy migration between databases by enabling the same set of ORM Java objects to serve different databases. Besides, the tool help transforming proprietary data-type into one that suit the default database which is specified by user.
Well Proven Visual Modeling Technology
DB Visual ARCHITECT inherits the visual modeling environment from Visual Paradigm for UML, a well-known UML CASE Tool that provides intuitive inline editing for both Class Diagram and ERD. This truly what-you-see-is-what-you-get diagram editing facility reduces the effort and time in design the system.
Enhancements:
- Branch and tag capabilities were added to the VP Teamwork Server, including Subversion and CVS repository integration.
- This allows different modeling projects to be run in parallel while keeping the release quality project stable in the trunk.
- There were also a number of enhancements for various other features.

DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA) offers software developers an excellent solution for database applications development. DB Visual ARCHITECT is an Object-Relational Mapping tool which provides an easy-to-use environment bridging between object model, data model and relational database.
DB-VA not only empowers you the visual modeling capability for performing both logical and physical data design, but also automates the roundtrip mapping between object model and data model.
Developers save enormous amounts of time using DB-VA to manage the coding of SQL and JDBC transparently with Plain Old Java Objects (POJO), as DB Visual ARCHITECT empowers software designers to perform roundtrip engineering of a relational database into a Class Diagram, and to an Entity Relationship Diagram and vise versa. Likewise designers can also create a database from entity relational models or class models visually on the fly.
DB-VA also generates a cost-effective, reliable, scalable and high-performance object to relational mapping layer. The generated mapping layer includes the support of transaction, cache and other optimized features. DB-VA increases the productivity and significantly reduces the risks of developing the relational mapping layer manually.
Main features:
Automate the Mapping Between Java Objects to RDBMS Tables
DB Visual ARCHITECT helps mapping between Java objects to relational database. This act not only preserves the data, but also the state, foreign/primary key mapping, difference in data type and business logic. Developers are no longer necessary to handle those tedious tasks.
Re-engineering Application Based on Legacy Database
DB Visual ARCHITECT allows you to reverse database (DB Reverse) tables through JDBC into UML models. You can form Class Diagram from the reversed models and redesign the legacy database without pain.
Multiple Database Support
DB Visual ARCHITECT promote easy migration between databases by enabling the same set of ORM Java objects to serve different databases. Besides, the tool help transforming proprietary data-type into one that suit the default database which is specified by user.
Well Proven Visual Modeling Technology
DB Visual ARCHITECT inherits the visual modeling environment from Visual Paradigm for UML, a well-known UML CASE Tool that provides intuitive inline editing for both Class Diagram and ERD. This truly what-you-see-is-what-you-get diagram editing facility reduces the effort and time in design the system.
Enhancements:
- A branch and tag capability was introduced to the VP Teamwork Server, Subversion, and CVS repository integration.
- With advanced branch and tag support, different modeling projects can run in parallel while keeping the release quality project stable in the trunk.
- There are also a number of enhancements for various other features.

Visual Paradigm for UML is a powerful, easy-to-use UML modelling and CASE tool. Visual Paradigm for UML Modeler Edition lets you draw all types of UML diagrams, reverse source code to UML models, generate source code from UML diagrams, and much more.
It features the latest UML support (use case diagrams, class diagrams, component diagrams, etc.), incremental round-trip engineering, instant reverse for Java, C++, Dot NET exe/dll, XML, XML Schema, and CORBA IDL, Rational Rose support, Microsoft Visio integration, and report and HTML/PDF documentation generators.
Enhancements:
- Reverse engineering of ERD from DDL was introduced. ERD models like entities, views, and relationships can be generated by reversing the data definition language.
- Images can be incorporated into documentation.
- Documentation structure can be saved as a template for reuse in other models.
- Hibernate annotations are supported in ORM persistence.
- Hibernate version tags can be generated for optimistic concurrency control.
- Ada95 and Flash ActionScript 3.0 code can be generated through the Instant generator.

MiG Calendar makes it possible to any kind of time-based visualizations to your applications with little effort.
Flexible, Fast and Easy to use
If you want to visualize information with a time perspective, MiG Calendar will not only make your application look professional and be easy to use, you will save resources as well.
MiG Calendar is the most flexible and high performing calendaring solution on the market, you will not be disappointed; that we can promise you.
With MiG Calendar you can create a user interface that looks and feels like Microsofts Outlook, Apples iCal or Mozillas Calendar in only a few days. Add a day or two and you can even switch between them while the application is running!
What kind of applications can you create with MiG Calendar?
MiG Calendar Component is a Java component that will make it easy to map anything that has a time or time range to a very flexible and optionally interactive visual representation.
Here are a few examples of the applications you can create with the component, there are many more.
- Advanced Calendaring Solutions
- Hotel Bookings Visualization and Interaction
- Airline Flight Time Information System
- TV Schedules for Web or Interactive through an Applet or Application
- Cinema Movie Time Visualization
- Serving Calendar Images to a Web Application
- Resource Management Booking System
Main features:
- Visually extremely flexible through Theming and decorator support. Very easy to extend with new decorations and behaviors.
- Very good performance with optimized redrawing, making it possible to show tens of thousands of activities in one screen.
- Flexible recurrence handling that supports all aspects of the iCalendar (RFC 2445) specification.
- Date utility package included for handling advanced date and date range arithmetic such as iterating over time periods and rounding dates to boundaries.
- Complete all around header support with mouse interaction effects and events. This includes automatic scrolling and corner fill components.
- Extensive event support. Almost any changes and interactions can be caught by listening for events.
- Both an interface and implementing classes are included for handling the activities in the calendar. This makes it simple to integrate your existing classes, or create new ones, with MiG Calendar.
- The MiG Theme Editor included makes it a snap to create your own calendar look and feels (i.e. skins) using a GUI. The amazing thing is that it is equally easy to do the customizations by hand in code.
- The MiG AShape API for defining and painting the shapes that makes out the activities shown in the calendar, are very flexible and totally decoupled from the calendar layout itself. This governs for an until now unseen flexibility creating your own type of calendar.
- The subsystem for importing, exporting and synchronizing the activities handled by the calendar is completely exchangeable and/or extendable. It would for instance be a simple thing to hook it up with a third party iCalendar parser to view and edit .ical files. A reference demo implementation of a .ical parser is included. There are also good Open Source parsers available.
- The class hierarchy of MiG Calendar is simple yet very powerful. It is following the design patterns of Swing. The implementation packs a lot of customization without the need to subclass, but sub classing is still allowed and considered for in the design.
- A vast number of utility classes and helper objects are included.

Kerika is a new approach to collaboration that provides a visual context for sharing documents, with automatic filing of versions and comments; process templates; and support for very large files.

The Kerika project connects Windows, Mac and Linux users across organizations, networks and locations, without requiring anyone to upgrade their computers, incur up-front costs, hire consultants, or make long-term commitments.

You can sketch out your projects using Idea Pages, add content, develop ideas into subprojects, and then share everything with anyone you like: just list the email addresses of the people you want to share with and Kerika takes care of the rest. The software automatically figures out whether your buddies are also using Kerika; if they are not, they will get their project updates sent to them by email.

Idea Pages work like a "graphical Wiki": any team member can delete an item from a shared project, and any other team member can restore the item later.

The document management features are easy, yet powerful: you can share any type of file (documents, Web links, pictures, software, etc.) with other users, and whenever team members make changes these are automatically sent and filed on everyone’s computer.

It is easy to attach notes to documents and projects, to share content and processes across multiple projects, to chat sessions with other users and get real-time notifications of updates.

Kerika works on a peer-to-peer model: every user has a complete set of project files and there is no need to rely upon a central server as long as users are online. And for complete privacy, Kerika lets you set up a "private server", on any machine you have, to hold messages for your team members when they are offline so nobody else gets to see what you are sharing with others!

The software is offered as a subscription service: you get a 30-day free trial, after which you can become a monthly subscriber for just a few dollars a month.

JasperAssistant is a visual report designer for JasperReports, a popular open-source reporting engine. JasperAssistant is built on top of the Eclipses plug-in architecture and its main goal is to help you create JasperReports report definition files through an intuitive graphical interface.
JasperAssistant opens for you the door to the best open-source reporting engine available - JasperReports. JasperReports offers you a free reporting library for your commercial and non-commercial Java projects with no deployment or any other fees.
JasperAssistant in its turn gives you a professional designer that is able to save you a great amount of development time. Combine the two, and you get an accessible reporting solution which easily matches many high-priced commercial counterparts.
Benefits:
- Design and layout your reports using an intuitive visual interface and avoid the need for XML editing of JasperReports templates.
- Take advantage of Eclipse IDE integration and effectively combine Java and JasperReports development.
- Efficiently locate and correct report problems using precise error indications.
- Preview your reports instantly using live data from a JDBC database connection, an XML document, JavaBeans array or a custom data source.
- Export and preview your reports in PDF, Excel, HTML, CSV and XML formats.
Main features:
- "What you see is what you get" visual report designer.
- Complete integration with Eclipse IDE environment.
- Support for all the features of JasperReports up to version 1.2.1
- An integrated report compiler.
- Report preview support
- Report Export wizard
- Support for compiled report files (*.jasper)
- Drag-and-drop interface.
- Unlimited Undo/Redo support.
- Cut/Copy/Paste support.
- Properties View.
- Outline View.
- Problems/Tasks View.
- Intuitive Context Menus.
- A dedicated toolbar for text objects.
- Zoom support.
- A customizable palette.
- A comprehensive set of align and resize actions.
- Intuitive Expression Editor.
- Integrated user documentation.
- Field Wizard.
- Grid and Snap To Grid support.
- Rulers, Guides and Snap to Guides support.
- Extensible shortcuts support.
- Full support for JasperReports data sources.
Enhancements:
- This version adds support for JasperReports 1.3.0; notably a new break element is now available.
- JasperAssistant can now be used with Eclipse 3.3 which also allows it, from now on, to work properly on the Mac OS X platform.

X-develop is a multi-language, cross-platform IDE from Omnicore. X-develop targets the .NET platform, the Mono platform, and the Java platform.
It offers advanced code analysis, project-wide on-the-fly error checking, refactoring, smart editing, fast code navigation capabilities, seamless version control system integration, and other productivity-boosting features for C#, Java, JavaServer Pages, J#, and Visual Basic.NET.
On-the-fly Error Checking
On-the-fly error checking of all files throughout the project
Instant display of errors caused by changes in other files
Suggestion of automatic fixes for errors
Coding Assistance
Code completion
Documentation popup display
Create setter and getter methods
Create constructor
Override method
Create stubs for not yet implemented interface methods
Customizable code formatting
Semantic code highlighting
Organize imports
Code Inspections
Find unused methods/fields/variables
Find assigment with no effect
Possible Fallthrough
Unnecessary cast
Unexpected empty statement
Identical if/else clause
Fast Navigation
Goto overriding/overridden method
Goto symbol/class by name
Find usages
Find inheritors of a type
Find overridden/overriding methods
Find method taking/returning a type
Refactoring
Rename class/method/field/variable
Move classes
Change method signature
Extract method
Inline method
Introduce variable
Inline variable
Debugging
.NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 debugger
Mono debugger
Industry-leading back-in-time Java debugger
JSP debugging
GUI designer
Support for WindowsForms 1.0 & 2.0, GTK#, Swing and AWT
Creates resizable, resolution and font size independent GUIs
Version Control System Integration
Support for CVS, SubVersion, Visual SourceSafe, Bitkeeper and Perforce
Languages
Allready supports Java, C#, JSP, J# and VisualBasic.NET
Open API for custom languages
Cross-language refactoring
Java
Supported on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
Supports development for JDK 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 5.0
Full support for JDK 5.0 languages features (generics, enums, autoboxing,...)
Incremental background compilation
Compatibility compilation allows using JDK 5.0 languages features with JDK 1.4
JavaServerPages
Supports development of JSPs
Support Tomcat 4.1, 5.0 and 5.5
J#
Full support for J# 1.1 and J# 2.0 including generics
All productivity features are available for J#
C#
Full support for C#1.1 and C# 2.0 including generics
All productivity features are available for C#
Visual Basic.NET
Full support for VisualBasic.NET 2005 including generics
Most productivity features are available for Visual Basic.NET
Visual Studio.NET
Compatible with Visual Studio.NET 2005 and 2003 projects and solution files (.sln)
Full support for .NET version 1 and 2 on Windows
Uses MSBuild for compilation
Support for VS.NET 2005 project and item templates
Mono
Support for Mono
Version restrictions:
- 20-day evaluation trial

IdeaGraph is easy-to-use software for creating visual maps of ideas, that can work with web pages, documents and images.

You can also incorporate information from news channels, and blog, and lots of other fun things.

It is a cutting-edge tool that uses Semantic Web technologies.