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Client Object Frameworks

 Delivered with Sapphire are several frameworks-Java, ActiveX, JavaScript, and VBScript. These frameworks provide database access with almost no coding required of the developer. For example, the Java framework provides 13 Java classes that set up the URL, connect to a Web Server, execute a database query, return the results, and display them in a standard data applet, also provided. In short, these classes provide "database-enabled" Java. This functionality is not available in AWT or the like.

These frameworks also work automatically within Sapphire/Web editors. For example, the Object Bind Editor will recognize the saact parameter in our applet and allow visual binding to it.

There are two approaches to the integration of Java or of ActiveX. Either of these approaches may require coding, especially if you want to view data using a separate applet.

1. If you want Sapphire to work with your own or a third-party applet, this does not require Java development in most cases. For example, the KL JClassTable Applet provides an applet parameter for specifying table cell values. These values can be dropped into the correct "param" value by a normal Sapphire bind.

2. If you want to integrate your own Java class, it is quite easy to instantiate classes from our Java framework and use them to obtain data within your class. In Sapphire/Web it typically takes about 10 lines of Java code to perform an integration. Once complete, the integration class is available to Sapphire visually (bind editor, etc.).


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