Single Platform for Rapid App Development

Single Platform for Rapid App Development

An end-to-end development and deployment platform for developers, with an out-of-box schema-less database, and a rich set of components for rapid app development

Sandeep Koul

Friday, September 26, 2008

BANGALORE, INDIA: Brainwave is a Web-based rapid application development platform for developers, which aims at solving developer issues surrounding integration. Most of the platforms available have three-tier architecture constituting components for building interface of the application, for developing actual logic of the application, and for databases.

Normally one goes for different vendors to carry out work in these three different domains and finally integrates these components to get a final product. Owing to different vendors, integration becomes a complex task; Brainwave tries to simplify this complexity by introducing a single platform that can take care of all the components required in building applications. Brainwave SDK comes with a special database engine, API widgets library and deployment server.

Components
Brainwave platform has six components for rapid application development. Let's take a look at these components.

We'll start with the component that makes Brainwave different from others. Poseidon, the database engine of Brainwave platform, is a schema-less neural database built to overcome certain issues related to a conventional relational database like normalization, relationship between primary and foreign keys, etc. Poseidon stores data with the help of 'Meme' and 'Link,' where Meme is used to store data and Link represents relationship of data. Meme the fundamental unit of data in Poseidon has a 128-bit global unique identification key, name, and associated aliases.

The next important component of Brainwave is the application server that is code named 'Iris'. Iris is a Python-based server built on Open Source CherryPy project (www.cherrypy.org).

Templating system of Brainwave is named 'Aphrodite,' which is an XSLT (Extensible style sheet language transformation used to display XML documents on browser) based tinplating system that contains many predefined templates that can be used by developers.

For security Brainwave comes with Cerberus, the security manager. Security is based on capability and policies where capability is unforgettable and communicable token of authority and policies are used to give permissions (read/write/link) to users. Besides these four components, the rest two components in Brainwave architecture include Hermes, a protocol that provides Web services to applications not built on Brainwave platform and Gaea, kernel that provides mechanism to plug-and-play from different vendors.

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