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Chapter 4 – Information Technology

Article 5 – IT Standards

Revised April 9, 2002

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42020.3.1 Application Generators

  • The Department encourages the investigation and use of application generator software.

  • Application generators are integrated fourth-generation language tools which permit an entire application to be generated. The most useful full-function application generators support a wide range of integrated components including a data base management system (DBMS), data dictionary, security facilities, analysis tools, query language, report generator, documentation generator, screen painter, prototyping facilitator, graphics generator, decision support or financial modeling tools, multiple end-user interfaces, high-level procedural language, data definition language, distributed processing facilities, testing tools, a micro-to-mainframe communications link, and a separate version of the tool for a personal computer.

  • Application generators for EDPElectronic Data Processing (see IT) professionals generally include a very high-level procedural language that is used to specify logical operations. These tools are usually integrated with a full-function DBMS that supports both relational and other data structures.