Compuware is often asked to compare Uniface’s productivity, performance and other characteristics with those of alternative software stacks. However, performance benchmarking is difficult to do accurately, and results can be misleading if incorrectly interpreted. Productivity, too, is hard to measure mostly because opportunities to compare like with like occur so rarely.

In an attempt to share as much information as possible about the development productivity, runtime performance and other attributes of Uniface, Compuware has created its own sample application and benchmark: Pet Plaza.

This article will explain the origins of Pet Plaza, and present our findings about Uniface’s development productivity compared to those of J2EEand .NET. A subsequent paper will focus on the companion topic of runtime performance.   lees meer...