WebApplicationBuilder, in short WAB, is a JBuilder OpenTool extension designed to generate user interfaces for real thin client applications.
Those clients are 100% Pure HTML/JavaScript complient and will therefore run on any browser on any platform, theoretically.
The windowing library (wabawt) is optimized for Internet Explorer.
The main target for WAB is to design client/server applications without much coding.
Included in WAB there are a few wizards which helps you create new objects such as windows and panels.
There is also an application wizard which one can use to generate a full application template.
All objects are stored in XML-format. The fact that JBuilder can handle XML files one can edit those files very easily to change a few properties.
Since Version 1.2.0, WAB can generate code to support WABClient.
WABClient is a thin client 100% Pure Java XML implementation of a Application Browser, which is available free of charge as OpenSource.
Typical Applications: Client-Server, Remote
Availability: Version 1.0.5 currently available as OpenSource Release.
Version 1.2.0 which support WABClient will be available in February.