Dual-Mode Visual Development Tool - Programming and Orchestration
Traditional development tools are primarily programming-oriented, requiring developers to integrate various technical frameworks and write business logic code. The JitAi Development Framework provides out-of-the-box element family classes by encapsulating technical infrastructure and common business components. However, enabling developers to use these capabilities more easily and intuitively requires purpose-built development tools.
IDEApp is JitAi's dual-mode enterprise application development tool supporting both programming and orchestration. As an independent JitAi application, every application inherits IDEApp's capabilities by default and can be used immediately upon entering the development environment. IDEApp automatically adapts to framework extensions and developer-customized element family classes, supporting seamless switching between visual development and full-code development modes.
Programming and orchestration
Any complex system comprises two fundamental elements: structure and process. The mission of development tools is to enable developers to construct structure and process more easily—this is the design philosophy behind JitAi development tools.
- Structure: The constituent modules of a system and their interrelationships, expressed through orchestration
- Process: The behavioral sequences and logical flows during system runtime, expressed through programming
Orchestration essentially involves configuring and combining structural objects, which can be implemented through various means including GUI visualization and code writing.
Orchestration depends on programming: Programming generates functions, and embedding these functions into objects creates new structures—this constitutes orchestration.
Programming depends on orchestration: Orchestration generates objects, and utilizing these objects in functions implements process sequences—this constitutes programming.
Dual-mode unification
Dual-mode refers to two development approaches: visual development and full-code development. Dual-mode unification is not merely the coexistence of two development modes, but rather a deep architectural unification concept. Both modes can perform orchestration work, differing only in how orchestration is manifested and operated, while enabling seamless switching between approaches.
Visual development mode
- Visual Design: Building applications through drag-and-drop graphical interfaces while automatically analyzing application source code directory structure and dependencies
- High-Quality Code Generation: Automatically generating structural and process description code through graphical operations, ensuring code quality
- Development as Production: Development environment configurations and effects are completely consistent with production, ensuring that development previews match final live results
- Unified Management Interface: Displaying and managing all elements through a unified interface, enabling element configuration editing via visual interfaces
Full-code development mode
Providing comprehensive programming control capabilities for professional developers, with unrestricted freedom for extension and modification.
- Comprehensive Programming Control: Providing complete code writing and control capabilities to meet complex business logic and highly customized requirements
- Hybrid Development Mode: Seamless switching and real-time synchronization with GUI orchestration mode, enabling flexible combined use within the same project
- Enterprise-Level Customization: Implementation of enterprise features including deep system integration and performance fine-tuning
Two modes unified across four dimensions
1. Technical architecture unification
- Both modes are built on the JAAP Architecture
- Generate identical element structures and code artifacts
- Follow unified system model abstractions
2. Development experience unification
- Instant Response Mechanism: Automatic saving, incremental compilation, on-demand loading, and real-time preview feedback
- Unified Operation Paradigm: All application elements follow a unified CRUD operation pattern (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
- Seamless Mode Switching: Both development modes support flexible switching and hybrid usage within the same project
- Scenario-based Adaptation: Optimal development mode selection for different scenarios and complexity requirements
3. Result equivalence unification
- Both approaches can produce applications with identical functionality
- Development as Production: Development environment effects are equivalent to production environment results
- Consistent Quality Standards: Controllable code quality is guaranteed regardless of the approach used
4. Theoretical foundation unification
- Both are grounded in the theoretical model: System = Structure + Process
- Orchestration expresses structure; programming expresses process