Glide stack

Glide is an extensible Web 2.0 development platform written in Java that facilitates rapid development of forms-based workflow applications (work orders, trouble ticketing, and project management, for example).

Table 1. User interface stack technology map

Java packages		Technologies used
	User Interface (Browser)	AngularJS HTML CSS JavaScript
com.glide.ui com.glide.jelly	GlideServlet	Apache Jelly
com.glide.script	Business Rules	Mozilla Rhino
com.glide.db	Persistence	JDBC

Table 2. User interface stack technology map descriptions

Name	Description	Attributes
GlideServlet	The primary driver of Glide, and the only servlet in the system, is found in GlideServlet.java. The GlideServlet:	Handles inbound action requests Renders pages Merges data with forms Presents to user Interfaces with script layer
Business Rules		ECMA / JavaScript implementation based on Mozilla Rhino Interfaces with persistence layer using JDBC recordset interface Merges persistence layer meta-data with data for easy correlation
Persistence		Persistence means any store RDBMS LDAP File system Uniform access regardless of store type Provides QUID and meta-data capabilities Interfaces presented to callers RecordSet TableDescriptor ElementDescriptor

Figure 1. Glide servlet