Rapid web application development with the Web Toolkit

Question

I spend a lot of time (actually too much time) on the development of back-office applications, the main purpose of which is to manage content and web applications. Here is how I can describe these applications:

- Made with PHP
- Using a MySQL or Postgres or SQLite database
- Made of a lot of pages and features
- Very simple features, mostly data CRUD (create+read+update+delete into the database)
- Mostly made of forms
- UIs are usually quite simple (html + css + very basic javascript)

The entire data access code in these applications depends on the library that I developed many years ago, and I reuse it every time I can. This part does not take much time.

How long does the user interface take and basically develops lists and data forms. Using the WYSIWYG editor makes a lot of sense, except the ones I tried (Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Expression, Eclipse, ...) actually don't do it much faster because the generated code is often bloated and these tools can't rely on custom libraries like the one I made and use.

I figured using Web Tookit could be another way to reduce the development time for these tools. Therefore, before I spend too much time searching for the perfect tools, I would appreciate your opinions and impressions of such issues.

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

Not sure, but it looks like the Tibco General Interface (http://www.generalinterface.org) is what you are looking for.