Clarion Enterprise Edition

Clarion Enterprise Edition is a powerful tool in the Clarion product line. The Rapid Application Development environment contains a number of unique features that allow Clarion users to maintain their reputation as the fastest and most efficient developers of industrial applications. At the core of Clarion is the Data Dictionary, a metadata repository that stores descriptions of database tables and standard attributes for representing the data in those tables on the screen, in documents, and in browse lists. As well as business rules and usage options.

The Application Generator is a key tool of the development environment and works together with the Data Dictionary. The Application Generator provides application creation and maintenance in a process known as virtual programming. Interactive ABC templates and classes working together with the App Generator produce precalibrated OOP code. Performance is based on Clarion's problem-oriented, database-independent but processing-oriented 4GL programming language, developed specifically for building business applications.

The software can access virtually any data with ODBC/ADO and built-in database drivers. But don't think that the automation capabilities leave no room for manual coding... Clarion is one of the most productive business languages in existence, and has been used to write everything from games and utilities for general use to traffic control systems.