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).

Tabelle : 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

Tabelle : 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