Data dictionary

At the core of all our vertical market solutions is the application data dictionary. This data dictionary manages all the tables and fields used in our solutions. The persons used to ERPs like Oracle Financials or Openbravo see the advatanges of having a data dictionary in order to manage application development. It allows to keep track of all the tables and fields used and as well give a subset of the data to forms or reports developers to generate ad hoc code.

Data dictionary used during the development

The data dictionary is heavily used in our development process in order to build and generate all the maintenance screens and forms. It allows in conjunction with our joomla code generator to define all fields, variables and add all the validations needed by a particular screen or form.

Data dictionary used in the forms builder

All the forms used in the frontend of our soluitons are created using the forms builder. The form builder uses the data dictionary in order to add the fields to the form and link any validation needed for a particular field (required,dropbox linked to a table... ).

This process allows to generate bugs free code no mater which developer is tasked with the development. The forms builder uses the master templates from the code generator to include the necessary code and libraries to generate uniform code.

The debugging is simply eliminated because once the master templates have been tested, it is a matter of selecting fields and the validation needed through maintenance screens and then generate the code.