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Servoy is a development and deployment platform. Servoy is inspired on 4GL in terms of how applications are developed but unlike many 4GL's does not have proprietary languages and/or databases but instead bases its language on open standards. Servoy consists of a GUI

Gui

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designer, is event-driven

Event-driven

Event driven may refer to:The term event-driven refers to a methodology that focuses on events and event dependencies.Examples include:* Event-driven finite-state machine, finite-state machine where the transition from one state to another is triggered by an event or a message* Event-driven...

and runs scripts

Scripting language

A scripting language, script language, or extension language is a programming language that allows control of one or more applications. "Scripts" are distinct from the core code of the application, as they are usually written in a different language and are often created or at least modified by the...

through JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

. Servoy allows applications to be deployed to both a native Smart client

Smart client

Smart Client is a term describing an application environment which:* delivers applications over a web [] connection* does not require installation * automatically updates without user action...

/ Rich client and to a pure html

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

Web client from the same codebase

Codebase

The term codebase, or code base, is used in software development to mean the whole collection of source code used to build a particular application or component. Typically, the codebase includes only human-written source code files, and not, e.g., source code files generated by other tools or...

and user interface definitions.

Servoy 4.0 and beyond has a free community edition for non-commercial use. This version can be downloaded from Servoy's website. As of Servoy 5 it is also Open Source under the AGPL

Affero General Public License

The Affero General Public License, often abbreviated as Affero GPL and AGPL , refers to two distinct, though historically related, free software licenses:...

license.

Servoy applications can be deployed on all popular operating systems including Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, Solaris and other UNIX

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

systems. It has been reviewed by eWeek Previous versions were reviewed by MacUser Magazine, where it received a 4 mouse rating.

Applications developed with Servoy can access data from all popular SQL back-ends such as Oracle

Oracle database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

, Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...

, IBM DB2

IBM DB2

The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...

, IBM Informix, Sybase

Sybase

Sybase, an SAP company, is an enterprise software and services company offering software to manage, analyze, and mobilize information, using relational databases, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms....

, MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

, PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...

, Firebird

Firebird (database server)

Firebird is an open source SQL relational database management system that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix. The database forked from Borland's open source edition of InterBase in 2000, but since Firebird 1.5 the code has been largely rewritten ....

; and combine data from different databases into a single user interface UI.

The Servoy suite of products consists of Servoy Developer which is used to build applications; Servoy Application Server to deploy the application; and Servoy Smart and Web Client which runs on the device—PC, mobile or other—of the end-user. Servoy also offers a runtime

Run-time system

A run-time system is a software component designed to support the execution of computer programs written in some computer language...

version that allows the creation of standalone Servoy applications.

Servoy Server includes Servoy Headless

Headless system

A headless system is a computer system or device that has been configured to operate without a monitor , keyboard and mouse...

Client. This client allows other applications to execute Servoy business rules including consuming them as a web service

Web service

A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...

. The headless client also allows for batch processing.

Servoy has a partnering network of over 200 companies that offer Servoy development, Servoy components (Beans and plugins), consulting or hosting services called the Servoy Alliance Network (SAN).

History of Servoy

Servoy is the brainchild of Jan Aleman and Jan Blok who met each other while studying computer science. Development began in 1997 and was used with just a few of their existing clients. In 2001 they created Servoy, B.V. (in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

) and took the product commercial. A couple of years after that they opened Servoy, Inc. (in the USA). In 2006 sales took off as Servoy grew beyond its original 4GL replacement era and was targeted towards ISVs

Independent software vendor

Independent software vendor is a business term for companies specializing in making or selling software, designed for mass marketing or for niche markets...

(Independent Software Vendors) and became a tool for ISVs to quickly rewrite for the Internet with Web 2.0

Web 2.0

The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...

functionality (RIA

Rich Internet application

A Rich Internet Application is a Web application that has many of the characteristics of desktop application software, typically delivered either by way of a site-specific browser, via a browser plug-in, independent sandboxes, extensive use of JavaScript, or virtual machines...

, AJAX

Ajax

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, data broadcasting, etc.)

In the summer of 2008 4.0 was released, changing Servoy from its proprietary based IDE

Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

to an Eclipse

Eclipse (software)

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment and an extensible plug-in system...

plug-in. The tech analysts and tech journalists took a much greater view with the 4.0 release, resulting in a slew of articles and mentions (see below). As of Servoy 5 the developer and client code is available under both a AGPL and commercial license.

The company has an annual developers conference called ServoyWorld.

External links

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