20+ Open Source RAD Tools

This is a list of Rapid Application Development tools that might sometimes save your precious time. Some tools you already use might not be in this list so if you want it to be added here, please drop a comment.

Boa Constructor

Boa Constructor is a cross platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI Builder. It offers visual frame creation and manipulation, an object inspector, many views on the source like object browsers, inheritance hierarchies, doc string generated html documentation, an advanced debugger and integrated help.

Visual WebGui

Visual WebGui is a RAD AJAX RIA framework/platform for developing & deploying AJAX GUIs. This AJAX framework simplifies AJAX development and cuts programming by 90% with intuitive WinForms-like Visual designer of AJAX controls which flattens web dev.

Visual WebGui Silverlight

Visual WebGui Silverlight framework introduces revolution in web development. It is the only available RAD tool to develop fully blown, data-centric, enterprise-level Microsoft Silverlight applications using WinForms drag&drop methodologies.

PHP For Applications

PHP5 RAD and object oriented PHP framework for building event-driven stateful web applications. Based on Zend Framework, features tableless HTML, multiple databases, accesskey support, auto data type recognition, transparent AJAX, UTF-8, i18n/l10n.

Coindesigner

Coindesigner is a RAD (rapid application development) system to build 3D applications using Coin3D openInventor. It allows to write simple 3D scenarios just using drag&drop, so users require no programming acknoledges at all to use it. Coindesigner is a system equivalent to glade or qt-designer, where we can choose components from the openInventor toolkit, add them somewhere in our scene and configure them in a very easy way.

Nemesis Pascal Framework

Pascal Develop is the IDE for the Nemesis Pascal project. It creates simple Pascal Scripts, units, forms and web services. Provides features like syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and many other specific PSP enchancements.

Dataweb Project

The aim of dataweb project is to create a rapid development tool for applications oriented to the manipulations of database. The applications created with this tool are immediately usable in net.

Radria

Radria (Rapid Development of Rich Internet Applications) is a collection of RAD tools, 100% web based, to build web applications faster. WYSIWYG, Drag, drop, PHP and Javascript reusable, components to build Ajax and Database driven web app or mashup.

PfP Studio

PfP Studio is a visual programming system for rapid application development (RAD) of Web based forms using PHP and Javascript. The frontend runs in a browser. It is intended to complement the skills of the developer rather than masking out the base languages.

UDev

UDev is an Integrated development environment for C++. Its main asset is its exclusive package system which allows to create projects using libraries or SDK in a simple and efficient way. It has also a form editor to make the design of your applications a painless task. The priority goes to ease-of-use for efficient and quick programming with advanced compilers support, automatic project creation, etc.

GNAVI

GNAVI is the open source alternative to visual software development languages like Delphi and Visual Basic. In addition to just being fully Open Source under the GPL, the language foundation of GNAVI, unlike Pascal or Basic of its competition, is the international standard of engineering, Ada.

RAD C++ Studio

A Visual IDE like VB/VC/Kylix/Borland CB. A truely Rapid Application Development tool. Also generates source for WIN32 API, Dev C++ Project, and best for exporting resource .rc files.

JSPX

JSPX is a pure java opensource free web RAD framework that easier and faster than most of the existing frameworks (JSP-Servlets-Struts-JSF-Clay), with a lot of features that improve productivity.

LabRAD For Delphi

Delphi VCL interface to the open source LabRAD framework (SF project “LabRAD”) for distributed instrument control and data acquisition. LabRAD for Delphi allows the efficient development of Client/Server LabRAD Modules in the typical Delphi RAD fashion.

jVantage

jVantage is a visual web development tool that builds applications from a business model perspective, meaning that you begin by defining your object model first, then further specify the properties and behavior of those objects. In plainer terms, it means that you first identify all of the applicable nouns of your applications, then specify how they relate to each other.

LXRAD

LXRAD means Linux X11 Rapid Application Development, LXRAD is written in c++ and uses own component Library (liblxrad), there are components such as button, editbox, menu and others. The LXRAD is a collection of RAD tools for creating x11 interface base.

wx2xml

Converts wxWidgets C++ code components (generated by wxDev-C++) to XML code. Allows users to port wxFrames created with the wxDev-C++ visual designer RAD to other IDEs.

GUI RAD for qooxdoo

Rapid application development for qooxdoo framework. You can drag&drop components, define properties and generate the source code.

PHPlus

PHPlus is an open source project to help PHP developers and designers make web based development faster and painless. The goal of this project is to develop a framework and tools (IDE) which will clearly seperate the interface & program logic.

ModelJ

ModelJ is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool that uses code generation to create complete J2EE designs using the Struts and EJB frameworks. With ModelJ, you are only a few steps away from a complete application readily deployable to JBoss, the leading open-source J2EE Application Server. ModelJ uses proven design patterns to ensure a robust, easy-to-maintain design.

Radical

Radical is an open source RAD tool for building graphical user interfaces in Java. The main focus of Radical is to be reasonably lightweight and to be easily embedded as a plugin for other projects. Currently, the whole point behind Radical is to stay simple, lightweight, and focused.

SOFIA

The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications (SOFIA) is a RAD tool set for the J2EE. It integrates best-of-breed tools with a Java framework to provide an end-to-end solution for developing high quality database driven web applications.

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