The Branch Transformation Toolkit application development product can provide
cost savings at the earliest stages of development planning and all the way
to deployment. Here are some of the ways that the toolkit reduces development
costs:
- Less reliance on high-level programming skills
- From back-end connectors to user interface building blocks, the toolkit
provides components that are easy to understand and use. This increases the
size of the developer pool and reduces training costs.
- Write once and deploy on several platforms
- A toolkit-based application is portable across several platforms. Instead
of a costly "from-the-ground-up" development effort for each target platform,
you define the application just once and then manage the deployment to any
of the supported platforms.
- Faster application development with fewer developers
- The quicker an application can be developed the lower the cost. The toolkit's
pre-built components reduce the person-hours needed to complete an application.
- Improved development team communication
- The WebSphere(R) Studio provides team development environment.
A common repository for the development products keeps the entire team synchronized
and up-to-date. This avoids costly duplication of effort and rework.
- Enhanced development using a graphical user interface
- With the Process Editor in WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Integration Edition, developers can visually choreograph business processes
for various applications. They do not have to spend time working with different
interfaces and low-level APIs. Drag-and-drop tools allow them to define the
sequence and flow of information between different business logic activities.
Individual business logic activities and even entire workflows become building
blocks that can be reused in developing other applications. Further gains
in productivity are possible because runtime support for these new J2EE workflow
capabilities is fully integrated in the application server to deliver a single
administration and deployment environment.