Setup a Sandbox
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Product Tour
A brief visual overview of Skyway Visual Perspectives. Watch
Tutorial - Part 1
Using Skyway Builder for building a Spring Web App. Watch
About

 

BetaSkyway was founded on the ideas of making development and delivery of enterprise class applications easier and faster. One of the main tenets of open source and SOA is the reuse of code, which also aims to solve this goal of making things easier and faster. But reuse does not go far enough, since there are obviously times when new things need to be created. Often, even the new things that need to be created are repetitive and boring for developers. How many login screens or user profile screens and associated business logic and data models does a developer end up creating in their lifetime? Too many! These are not interesting or challenging problems to solve, they are the monotony of the job.

We founded Skyway in order to make the monotonous aspects of development fly right by so that developers can get to the interesting aspects of a solution and to fundamentally solve business problems faster. Not coincidentally, the interesting points of developing a solution often happen to be the parts of the solution that will create business value. We have found that developers often desire to be highly aligned with business, but that the drudgery of certain aspects of IT often prevents this from happening.

Skyway Visual Perspectives is a Model Centric Development plug in for Eclipse that offers a seamless blend of coding and modeling. There are two very big differences between Skyway and other modeling tools on the market:

  • Skyway is NOT a UML modeling tool where you draw UML on a canvas and are required to know the complex details of UML.
  • Skyway enables you to model all aspects of a solution, including Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and complex business logic.

These differences enable just about anyone with development experience (Java, VB, C++, COBOL, RPG, etc) to become productive with Skyway almost immediately. You can model most or sometimes all of your solution and only drop down to code for the interesting parts. Skyway takes a unique approach to modeling that makes it easy to model everything from data, to RIA with AJAX, to complex business logic. Yet when you bump up against the edge of what models can do for you, simply drop down in to the code to do whatever you need.