Ongoing Development
Research and development on the DASL language continues at RD3 Software. The RD3 language enhancements and code generators for DASL have made the language extensible and have broadened the scope of the language from dynamic HTTP-style web applications to rich internet applications.
The language has been extended so it can define dynamic websites and domain-specific web portals that include cloud applications. For example, the RD3 website is a DASL "program".
The RD3 DASL language supports the concept of forms and nested forms as part of the logical presentation. Information and actions can be logically grouped, and the user interface can be controlled using annotations. Presentation and navigation of recursive relationships, such as organization charts and family trees, has been added to the language.
The DASL language has been made extensible. A third party programmer can write a code generator plugin in Java targeted to a specific DASL object class or form, allowing that object or form to be presented using a custom widget. Customized widgets may do computation within the user's browser, so the application presentation produced by DASL is now Turing complete.
DASL is unique among modern application programming languages in its ability to generate a modern graphic user interface for an application without requiring the programmer to define the user interface explicitly. Using simple annotations, the programmer can modify the user interface that is produced by DASL. Using code generator plugins, the programmer can extend DASL to generate a specific desired user interface.
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