Clarion development tools minimize the cost of developing and maintaining commercial quality database applications. Clarion is the only product that creates 16- and 32-bit programs for Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT and the Internet from a single application repository.

Now developers can create Internet/Intranet database applications as easily as they currently create Windows programs. The Internet Edition includes the popular  HYPERLINK "cwprof.htm" Professional Edition  and the  HYPERLINK "iedition.htm" \l "IDK" Clarion Internet Developer's Kit.
There are three levels of Clarion Tools; Professional, Enterprise and Internet
 

Professional Edition

If your applications are shaped by their underlying data, Clarion for Windows delivers a strong foundation in literally minutes, and the advanced tools to customize applications to solve your business problems.

Your starting point is a full featured application. In literally minutes, you'll have a complex application for viewing, editing, and reporting your database. The end user can select among multiple key orders by clicking a tab. Double-clicking a record in the list opens an update form, with automatic concurrency checking, and optional Referential Integrity Constraint support. When you use the visual design tools, and drop a control in a window or report, you place a complete solution - you don't have to write code! Clarion control templates already know how to perform the tasks typically required for maintaining your database.

By centering the development process around a database dictionary that stores the database structure, business rules, and application pre-formatting, Clarion automatically creates surprisingly complex applications just by running a wizard.

Clarion designs a useful application by using your database, as your starting point.
Incorporate Windows 95 controls (such as tree, progress, and tabs) in your 16-bit Windows programs. Bring 16-bit .VBX controls forward to 32-bit Windows safely and reliably. If your users are moving to 32-bit Windows in stages, no other tool lets you support both 16 and 32-bit users as easily as Clarion. With one tool, and one project file, you can compile applications for any Windows platforms.

A Business Language With built-in Database Grammar

The Clarion 4GL language is built from the ground up for business development. It's readable, easy to learn, and easy to maintain. It automatically uses integer maths on decimal types to eliminate floating point conversion errors on your currency calculations. Its built in database grammar helps you maintain databases of every type - the replaceable database drivers automatically perform the necessary optimizations. And, Clarion supports objects. You can write procedural code, or incorporate object structures (including OLE and OCX objects), and OOP code statements within procedural code, or write object oriented code.

Create Faster Programs With Smaller Footprints

The TopSpeed compiler creates fast applications. And, because the small (typically 100KB) database drivers contain everything you need to connect to your data, your application footprint doesn't require huge external database engines. The typical Clarion app requires about 1.5MB on the end user's system, including database support and reports.
 

Enterprise Edition

This is a new generation of Clarion technology with compelling benefits for every corporate programmer as well as every independent software developer who programs for a living.
Enterprise Edition delivers a unique combination of automation features, sound development methodology, blazing execution speed, extensive database awareness and effortless connectivity, as well as easy-to-program flexibility. It automates every phase of your work starting with design, through development and deployment, all the way through ongoing maintenance.

Best of all, Enterprise Edition allows you to CODE! (Create Once, Deploy Everywhere). It's the only development environment that lets you create 16- and 32-bit programs for Windows 3.x, 95 and NT -- all from a single source.

Internet Connect

Internet Connect Web enables your Clarion applications in minutes. It is an economical way - both from a monetary and a network traffic viewpoint - to give your end users full featured applications over the Internet/Intranet. With Internet Connect, you retain more control over the program flow and database access than with any other Internet/Intranet solution. Your applications can be run on any platform that supports a Java enabled browser.

Internet Connect, used in conjunction with  HYPERLINK "cwprof.htm" Clarion Professional Edition , consists of two products -- the Clarion Internet Developer's Kit and the Clarion Application Broker . The Internet Developer's Kit is a set of templates and Java classes which allow the developer to Web enable new and existing applications into Internet database applications (includes a limited edition of the Application Broker). The  HYPERLINK "iedition.htm" \l "Broker" Application Broker  is a specialized Web server designed to run your Clarion applications. It can run alone or with any other Web server

The Internet Developer's Kit is an add-on product that can be used with Clarion Professional, or Enterprise Edition to develop hybrid Web/Windows applications or to Web enable existing Clarion applications. Web enabling Clarion applications is a one-step, template driven, process. A single connect version of the Application Broker is included with the Internet Developer's Kit.

Give Yourself the Clarion Headstart

If the database drives your application design, you owe it to yourself to evaluate the RAD tool that automates your development tasks, and delivers the smallest, fastest executable you can build. Call DGT Ltd, to see how Clarion for Windows gives you a head start.