APTROW

Read-Only Webification

APTROW stands for Advanced Programming Technology Read-Only Webification.

What that means is: create read-only web views of your business data, using whatever technology.

APTROW is an opportunity take advantage of (or experiment with) more advanced programming languages that are not yet "Enterprise Approved".

• By limiting the use of these technologies to read-only applications, many of the perceived risks of using unproven "bleeding-edge" technologies are avoided.
• It's not just the business data that can benefit from better viewing applications. Existing business applications are themselves a form of "data", often very complex and not very well organised.
• Use web concepts to enable easy integration between different read-only applications, and between read-only applications and read/write applications.
• Give every business object and every business application artefact it's own unique URI.

What are some "advanced" programming languages that can be used?

Which programming languages and technologies should be considered to be "advanced" or not is somewhat subjective. Also, what's old and what's new changes as the years pass. A good general guide is programming.reddit.com, in the sense that if there exists an advanced programming language or technology, of the kind that promises in some way to make programming "better", but which has not reached the stage of widespread commercial use, it will be mentioned there.

In the category of a "technology" but not a "language" we can include the development of Domain-Specific Languages, i.e. make up your own language that says whatever it is that you want to say (in whatever way you want to say it).

Articles

• APTROW: Advanced Programming Technology Read-Only Webification A detailed explanation of the concept and motivation for it.
• APTROW: A Partial Solution to the "Parallel Programmer" problem?

Initial Release

A very early release of a demonstration concept for Aptrow can be found at http://github.com/pdorrell/aptrow. It is a WSGI web application running on Python 3.1, and includes very simple browsing of files, directories and zip files. The most interesting thing it does right now is let you browse a zip file which is an item inside another zip file (to any depth, except perhaps until the URL gets too long).