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The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications. SOFIA is an open source GUI and data access tool-kit for building high quality, database driven, web based applications in Java. SOFIA 2.3 adds these new features: Dynamic HTML Rich Client, Hibernate Integration, and support for Eclipse 3, IntelliJ 4.5, and Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Dynamic HTML Rich Client:

If you don't want to write applets, complex JavaScript or spend a fortune on closed-source proprietary tools, but still want a browser based rich client user interface, you can use SOFIA's new DHTML components for things such as: drop down or popup calendars, calculators and search boxes , web data grids with scroll bars, nested reports with row folding and desktop style table row selection. That's in addition to the rich set of existing components such as navigation bars, trees/tree tables and calendars, as well as high end business components for SCRUD (Search,Create, Read, Update, Delete) and reporting. And if your development does require database driven applets, SOFIA supports those as well. ... read more

Salmon LLC is pleased to announce the release of SOFIA 2.2. SOFIA is a free, open source, model-view-controller framework that brings web application development functionality similar to ASP Dot Net Web Forms to the Java developer. Whereas most Java web frameworks focus on only one or two aspects of the MCV design pattern and provide little or no development tool support, SOFIA focuses on making web developers immediately more productive and so provides a complete end-to-end solution right out of the box. ... read more

Salmon LLC is pleased to announce the latest release of SOFIA. SOFIA is the Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications, a new standard in Java development. It is open-source code that you can download for free and put to work today. SOFIAs powerful, scalable JSP and Swing framework creates an approach to Java Web development that makes programming more manageable and fun. SOFIA:

INTEGRATES TOOLS
SOFIA empowers J2EE programming with built-in integration of best-of-breed development toolsdesign tools like Dreamweaver, and IDEs like IntelliJ and Eclipse. SOFIA is anchored by J2EE class and tag libraries that offer more than 40 visual components (Button, Navigation Bar, DataTable) and 20 non-visual ones (DataStore, Internationalization, Task Scheduler).... read more

A bunch of magazine/newspaper articles have been written lately about SOFIA. We thought that folks on the forum might enjoy them so here they are:

1) A very well written article (fish jokes aside) about Salmon LLC and SOFIA.

Web Informant
by David Strom
http://strom.com/awards/345.html

2) An article about SOFIA and what we've been doing lately with it:

SDTimes
By Yvonne L. Lee
http://www.sdtimes.com/news/087/story9.htm... read more

Salmon LLC is pleased to announce the latest release of SOFIA, The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications, version 2.0. For those unfamiliar with SOFIA, it is an open source tool set for quickly building database driven applications in the J2EE and/or Swing Set. SOFIA consists of:

1) An extensive Java class library of foundation components for building web and/or Swing applications. The class library uses design patterns such as Model View Controller, GUI components and event listeners to abstract and hide a lot of the plumbing code required in a typical Java database driven application. This allows you to concentrate on business requirements and not spend a lot of time on low-level infrastructure. ... read more

Open source SOFIA, The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications, has been nominated for the Java Developers Journal "Best J2EE Development Framework" readers choice award. Help support SOFIA and open source by voting today! Register and vote at http://www.sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2003/vote.cfm. We appreciate your support.

To download SOFIA follow this link http://sourceforge.net/projects/salmon... read more

SOFIA has been reviewed in the Java Developers Journal. To vew the article please look at: http://www.sys-con.com/java/article.cfm?id=1859
To download a pdf copy please go to: http://www.salmonllc.com/website/Jsp/vanity/bin/JDJReview.pdf

Salmon LLC is pleased to announce the latest release of SOFIA, The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications. SOFIA 1.3 is the latest version of the product previously known as The JADE Open Framework. We decided to change the name after it came to our attention that there were several software products with names similar to ours. Also, the vendor of one such product contacted us and insisted we change our name. It seemed counter productive to fight over a name that was causing confusion anyway and so weve decided on a new name: SOFIA, short for: The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications.... read more

Salmon LLC is pleased to announce the release of SOFIA 1.2, the open source rapid application development tool for the J2EE. Since the initial release of SOFIA four months ago weve have over 33,000 downloads and a great deal of positive feedback and contributions from the open source community. Version 1.2 add the following new features:

Integration with IntelliJ IDEA 3.0
Integration with Tomcat 4.1
Improved form validation, improved navigation as well lots of additional features and fixes developed by Salmon and by folks in the open source community... read more

So far in the two months since we released SOFIA (formerly know as JADE) we have gotten quite a bit of positive feedback from the open source community. The biggest complaint we have had is that SOFIA is under the GNU General Public License and so you can't distribute it freely in commercial projects that aren't open source.

We were planning to add some new language to the license, but some folks pointed out that we couldnt add terms to the GPL and have it still be the GPL. So we instead created a second license for SOFIA. Here is how it works:... read more

Salmon LLC is pleased to announce the release of SOFIA, The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications 1.1 (formerly known as JADE) , the open source rapid application development tool for the J2EE. Since the initial release of SOFIA two months ago more than 20,000 developers within the open source community have downloaded a copy and provided a great deal of positive feedback. In response to the feedback, we have added the following new features: ... read more

Free Help On The Net

You can find technical support for SOFIA at the forum on Source Forge at http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=54203

There is also free support provided in the Frequently Asked Questions section of the Salmon LLC web site at http://www.salmonllc.com/website/Jsp/vanity/SofiaFaq.jsp

For business related questions and installation issues you can use the above links or send us an email sofia@salmonllc.com. ... read more

The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications (formerly know as JADE) is a rapid application development (RAD) tool for the J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). Its purpose is to allow Java developers to create high quality, consistent and maintainable database driven web applications and web sites quickly and easily.

SOFIA will run in any J2EE compliant container and with most of the popular database management systems. In addition, we have integrated SOFIA with best-of-breed development and deployment tools: Dreamweaver, IntelliJ IDEA, Tomcat and MySQL to create a full-featured, open WYSIWYG development environment for creating web applications. ... read more

The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications (SOFIA) is a rapid application development (RAD) tool for the J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). Its purpose is to allow Java developers to create high quality, consistent and maintainable database driven web applications and web sites quickly and easily.

SOFIA will run in any J2EE compliant container and with most of the popular database management systems. In addition, we have integrated SOFIA with best-of-breed development and deployment tools: Dreamweaver, IntelliJ IDEA, Tomcat and MySQL to create a full-featured, open WYSIWYG development environment for creating SOFIA applications.... read more