IAB Studio is a RIA server with built-in IDE, portal, collaborated business and administration modules. This development platform provides rich Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) in J2EE environments. IAB Studio is an integrated collection of tools and frameworks for implementing business functionality and providing users with sophisticated and very powerful interface. Most of J2EE frameworks, including Struts and JSF, do not offer any means for building advanced GUI and leave this heavy duty coding work to the developers. IAB Studio solves this problem; using IAB controls you can build very sophisticated GUI without coding; more than that you will do it in visual mode. Various toolsets are available for the visual development process in real-time. No applets, no activeX, no flash or other heavy technologies are required to provide users with comfort, reliability and joyful experience during the development, support or production. IAB Studio provides true RAD and group computing environment. Virtually unlimited number of developers can work simultaneously on various projects. Each user may access only the authorized layouts, pages and other resources. IAB Studio has many reusable components: Data Entry Forms, Project Organizer, Database Manager, Team Organizer, Instant Messaging, Treeview Builder, Membership Manager, Appointment Scheduler, Reporting and Workflow tools and many other modules. IAB Studio offers a wide range of rialets (widgets) for data manipulation and Web design. Data Entry Wizards, Grids, Treeviews, RTF Editors, Reports, etc. make development process simple and fast. Multilingual abilities allow for creation of pages in any language. IAB Studio Includes powerful Reporting engine and in-browser Report Designer, which is as powerful as any desktop designer. Reporting suite is a powerful environment for development and implementation of various data manipulation and reporting widgets. Delivers reports to the end user over the Internet in a Web page or in most useful formats: PDF, XML, HTML, ASCII/TAB, CVS, and others. No programming skills are required to use its Visual Designer, which allows developing various reports using various data sources, including SQL and Java data source. Data exchange is performed using the DTC control, which minimizes network traffic and increases overall productivity. Flexible and feature-rich, Report Controls have access to virtually any data source, including databases and web services. Extensive formatting options deliver complete control over the data that is presented to the end-users on demand or by schedule. IAB Studio Includes powerful Workflow engine and in-browser Workflow Designer and Monitoring tools, which allow to monitor the workflow performance in real time using flowcharts. Workflow Suite is a generic workflow engine, which allows the users to design, simulate, test, control, load balance, run and monitor various workflows (business processes) via the Internet. Workflow Suite offers a simple-to-use yet comprehensive in-browser Visual Designer, which allows to create and run business processes; this structure is also tightly integrated with any IAB Studio product. Developers or business users can work with this product simultaneously. The Internet is an unprecedented gateway to a vast wealth of knowledge and information, and its uses are virtually unlimited. The World Wide Web, despite being relatively young, is deeply ingrained in our culture and everyday lives and businesses. Cutting edge corporate websites are made possible with serious software applications specifically designed for the Web environment. The development of such Web applications is the leading trend in the modern software development industry. A web application is a software program with a graphical user interface which runs in an Internet browser, and can communicate via the network among different computers in order to exchange the information with the end-user. In the modern world, web application users desire to use all possible advantages of Internet browsers and web applications combined with the sophisticated capabilities of traditional PC based systems. The development of new web application (for example, a billing or banking system) requires months of work as well as many highly skilled specialists. Besides these, existing development tools and environments do not provide enough functionality during the development and production proccess. Also, traditional approaches to web application development do not allow the rapid creation of sophisticated graphical user interfaces tailored to suit the needs of a business. As a result, developers are limited by the shortcomings of existing development tools and production environments. For all these reasons, traditional web application development is very expensive and time-consuming and will likely cause loss of desired business functionality; low performance; long development life cycles; and difficult communication within distributed or outsourcing development teams. WorcsNet has developed and implemented a new -- and unique -- approach to web application development which addresses the high demands of developers and end users. It is a methodology which none of the leading software development companies have explored. Our software allows the development of Web applications in the Web environment using a Web browser based development interface and highly rich development and production environments. The major advantages of a browser based development environment are: * Immediate information delivery * Develop the application and the Web site from anywhere * Easy deployment * Easy/cheap maintenance and support * No need for client software (except for a regular Web browser) * Security and encryption support * Supports any existing functionality allowed by the Web browser * Expands Web browser capabilities * Multi-tier design/architecture The WorcsNet approach provides key advantages against traditional web-application development: * Effortless development of sophisticated business logic and user interfaces * Group computing: allows a remote and distributed development team * Well coordinated and administered user environment * Unsurpassed performance of developed applications * Software development time is reduced by 90% * Three to twenty (3-20) times less expensive than most traditional development environments and tools (Struts, WebSphere, .NET, Crystal Reports, JReport) * 5-25 times more cost effective than other traditional environments or tools for web application development * Reduced development and support cost - greatly reduces development budget * Highly skilled developers are not required * All the development tools and environment are located on the server * Communication with the server is performed through a regular Web browser * PC based development environment for stand alone PCs supported * Multilingual support * Multi level, easy administered security * Multi-platform environment * Traditional server requirements * Low requirements to the development or regular Internet user PC