Sample Bora Applications

(Click on a left menu item to run the demo applications)

This tutorial will guide you thru several sample Bora applications. It's a rather lengthy tutorial, so if you want to jump to a certain section, move on to the next page (Table of Contents), and select the section you are interested in.

You may directly start a particular demo application by clicking on it in the left-menu on this page, without the tutorial. The source code of these applications are available in Bora developer release.

Bora application API and development tools make it easy to implement Web-based applications fairly rapidly, and to deploy them within the Bora framework. Bora is one cohesive and complete package; all the way from the presentation layer to the backend resource managers and databases. Eliminating the need for developers to worry about putting together multiple tiers of an enterprise-strength high-bandwith IT-framework: web-servers, application-servers, transaction-processing systems, databases, etc... Bora covers it all.

Moreover, Bora is cohesive. Data flows smoothly and flawlessly between the tiers of the Bora Enterprise Transaction Processing System. Developers' not needing to learn and deal with different tiers, --often from different vendors that comes with their own compatibility quirks--, is an added bonus.

In addition, an investment made into any Bora application is often reusable over and over again. Most of the components developed for one Bora application may be reassembled into other applications and then redeployed. This is possible because: 1) Bora enforces a clear separation of development and deployment paradigms, and, 2) Bora isolates components' interaction with the environment and its resources into their well-defined scopes; making it possible to re-configure such scopes for different applications, therefore allowing the assembly of new applications out of preexisting components.

Below you will find some sample Bora applications. Check it out, kick the tires, test-drive... The buttons on the left side of the screen (left-nav) will take you directly to the demo pages for them. Click on any one of them and open up a demo application page. We suggest you to keep reading this tutorial while keeping two browser windows open: one for the tutorial (this window), one for test-driving the sample applications.

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