Upgrade ready for its eQ Foundation development product Browsersoft in June plans to add Web services support to its eQ Foundation development product, which emphasizes application configuration rather than coding.Version 3 of the product will add a Web services component to the Java-based platform, which features a set of three “adaptive” foundation services for building enterprise applications, including Business Object, Data Management, and AppFlow services.“The idea is that rather than having people write their own code or rather than having a tool that generates code for them, an adaptive service is a service configured with XML to the particular job that a user wants done,” said Browsersoft President Don Grodecki. The Business Object service manages business objects while the Data Management service manages transfer of those objects to and from a persistent storage mechanism such as a database. The AppFlow service handles process requirements.The Web service component will enable applications to be exposed as and consume Web services, without requiring any code generation, Grodecki said.“The Web service [component] will use the [AppFlow] service to define the process that is going to be published as a Web service, and the Web service creates all the of the SOAP messages that are necessary to create and consume the Web services,” said Grodecki. All code necessary to produce an application is in the service that eQ Foundation provides, according to the company. Users still can mix in their own code with preconfigured code from Browsersoft.A user of eQ said it enabled a reduction in the amount of time anticipated for developing a pharmaceuticals fulfillment application. The company, consulting firm eVentive, had earmarked three people to develop the application for about four months each, said Dana Bailey, COO at eVentive. “When we used the eQ product, we actually only had to use two people and it took about three months worth of work,” Bailey said.Browsersoft provides development components that serve as a starting point, and the user configures around these components and can develop additional objects, Bailey said. The eQ product “basically gives you a chance to come out of the gates with a running start,” said Bailey.The eQ product can work within a Struts framework through an adapter, according to Browsersoft. Software Development