{"id":596,"date":"2017-03-21T12:54:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T18:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morphis-insights.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2024-07-24T17:41:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:41:22","slug":"lets-get-technical-low-code-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morphis-tech.com\/blog\/lets-get-technical-low-code-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Get Technical – Low-Code Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Morphis technology platform was developed to enable the modernization of legacy systems, written in any language, to cloud-ready Java or .NET environments. The goal is to achieve 100% automation and we continue to strive for this (we\u2019re closer in some legacy languages than others) but where this is not possible we offer productivity tools to make code completion and UI tuning as efficient as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

A representation of the technology platform is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A 3 stage process of Analyze, Modernize (Transform) and Develop. The Analyze stage has been covered in previous posts, perhaps most extensively here<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong> The Modernize (or Transform) stage is highly automated and follows this process.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Note that customizations\/enhancements can be built into the automated Modernize process providing further cost\/time efficiencies over building them in afterwards\/rewriting the application.<\/span><\/p>\n

This post focuses on the final stage – Develop, and specifically the low-code development platform we have created to support the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of modernized applications. Why did we build this? Because technical debt is for life and not just a one-time blight on your application. The speed of technological change is such that you need to learn to fish<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

An application modernized by Morphis will follow the MVC (Model, View, Controller) pattern and will be built using the Morphis Frames (View) and Foundations (Model\/Controller) frameworks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Both Frames and Foundations provide a low-code approach to developing web-data-driven applications, encouraging developers to focus on writing application logic rather than infrastructure, which is provided by support libraries. Note that there no runtime dependencies\/licenses required so your application can be delivered\/licensed entirely independent of the Morphis frameworks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The architecture is explained at a high (technical) level in the following video. Note that all of the videos were created using a Java target environment but exactly the same principles hold for a .NET environment where we surface via a Visual Studio plugin.<\/span><\/p>\n

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