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

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

Table 2. User interface stack technology map descriptions

Name	Attributes
GlideServlet	The primary driver of Glide, and the only servlet in the system, is found in GlideServlet.java. Handles inbound action requests Renders pages Merges data with forms Presents to user Interfaces with script layer
Business Rules	ECMAScript 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 stack