Magic Software Enterprises , a provider of business integration and development technology, announced that it would start shipping eDeveloper V10, its Composite Application development and deployment Framework on March 30. The new version would become generally available on June 30th, 2006.

eDeveloper V10 delivers  composite applications capability, XML-based repository and rules engine, enhanced application development, version control and debugging features, all of which assist in developing solutions in the most robust and rapid metadata driven application development and deployment environment ever.

The release of V10 will begin with a Ramp-up program (controlled release). This program is scheduled to run from March 30th, 2006 to June 30th, 2006. The Ramp-up program is offered to a selection of representative customers and provides them with hands-on support during the porting of their applications to the new version. The Ramp-Up Program follows 9 months of extensive testing within the eDeveloper Beta Program.

"eDeveloper has pioneered the concepts of metadata driven application development and deployment, which are presently recognized and the foundation for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Composite Applications." said Avikam Perry, CTO and vice president of Research and Development at Magic Software. "V10 was designed to incorporate the latest standards in Metadata and Service Governance and provides full support for both Service Oriented and Event Driven application paradigms. We have excellent feedback from our customers as well as from external experts, and we remain faithful to our long term policy offering seamless upgrade path to our vast user community," he added.

Magic's rapid development paradigm is built on three principles:

A table-driven programming methodology , reduced operation set , and the Magic program cycle .

These three elements are the basis of the Magic Repository - a file that contains the entire application, including its models, tables, programs, menus, etc. The developer fills in a set of inter-related tables and thereby defines all of the system's business logic needs.

This straightforward and code-free programming technique allows for a short learning curve and provides clear programs, which are easy to maintain, even by programmers who are not familiar with the applications. Programs are maintained by Magic's high-level toolkit throughout the lifetime of the application. There is no 3GL code that must be compiled and linked for maintenance purposes.

eDeveloper's architecture provides easy code portability between different platforms and databases. Enhanced connectivity to legacy systems and databases is provided, as well as connectivity to standard technologies such as J2EE and Web Services.