Extreme Web Programming Takes Off.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2004

Wonder what the next generation of web programming will be? It might just look like Aestiva H2O, a web programming language for building software applications that run in browsers.

Aestiva, the company behind H2O, argues that programmers pay a huge penalty using current tools. Programmers are taught that web application development is about integration -- low-level functions used to paste together databases, HTML code, and variables.

Aestiva H2O is fundamentally different because the language is integrated from the inside-out. There's no integration. "Most web programming approaches are backwards," says D.M. Silverberg, H2O's principal architect. Furthermore, Aestiva H2O is based entirely on HTML and HTTP, the universal communication protocol used by browsers. It's a pure-web approach.

For the web programmer it means there are no COM objects to program. No DLLs. No Java objects. No socket programming. No low-level programming at all. Why? "Because it's inefficient and totally unnecessary," says Silverberg. Aestiva H2O is just HTML and high-level programming. "You get faster applications and development productivity is increased ten-fold."

The H2O approach snubs ten years of Microsoft technology and disputes the need for low-level XML, SQL, and DLL programming. It's a philosophy that's purist, radical and extreme. Nonetheless, it's finding converts.

H2O-based products have already been adopted by thousands of companies. Independent developers are adopting it too. Interest in Aestiva H2O, as measured by the number of H2O downloads per day, is increasing thirty percent per month, roughly the same rate of growth enjoyed by Java in its early days.

Will this kind of extreme programming take off? It's too early to tell. But if early indications are correct, Aestiva H2O will wake up an industry often viewed as too complex for its own good.

For More Information

Visit http://h2o.aestiva.com where you'll find free downloads, source code, and a variety of programmer resources.

About Aestiva

Aestiva, LLC, has been a leader in web-based computing technologies since 1996. Its products are cutting-edge web software applications that operate on Unix, Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms. Aestiva's focus on powerful yet easy-to-use web-based technologies has made its products popular with thousands of web designers worldwide.

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