Enhancing Developer Efficiency with Uniface 10.4.03: A Modern UX for Your Applications

Rocket Software’s Uniface 10.4.03 equips developers, solution providers, and architects with the crucial ability to deliver modern, accessible, and high-quality user experiences quickly. Uniface UX and UX Interface, part of Uniface 10.4.03, upgrades the user experience by allowing the creation of consistent, visually compelling, and WCAG-accessible web applications. And enjoying this expansion of features without the need to write code frees you to focus on what matters most, building modern applications end-to-end. It’s more than an update, it’s a leap toward building accessible, user-friendly, and visually engaging applications.

Uniface UX: Out-of-the-box widgets for faster development

The Uniface 10.4.03 release comes with the new Uniface UX design system. Its pre-built widgets (based on Microsoft's Fluent Web Components) provide a consistent presentation across applications and platforms.

The widgets speed up development, simplify accessibility compliance, and reduce information overload with features like:

• Built-in keyboard navigation
• Ample white space in layouts
• Clear fonts and sharp colors
• Coloring and shading options for data differentiation
• Icons

Developers can now customize the interface and behavior through properties without deep front-end programming expertise.

While everything you need to create your application is available out-of-the-box, the UX Interface allows you to build your own design system or extend the existing Uniface UX system to suit your preferences. Save time, save effort, and simplify the process of creating accessible applications for developers.

UX Interface: Simplifying user experience development

The new UX Interface is a key feature of Uniface 10.4.03. Developers now build custom widgets for data visualization, UX interactions, and screen layouts. The interface ensures a clear separation of responsibilities: models handle validation, components manage business logic, and widgets focus on user experience and visualization. This structured approach simplifies development, which produces cleaner and more maintainable code.

UX Interface is an enabling technology and requires knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS to produce custom widgets. Once the widgets have been created (like with Uniface UX), they can be used by the Uniface developers without the aforementioned requisite knowledge. Developers can instead focus on designing the data structure for their components, choosing from a rich widget library, and customizing to meet specific project needs — accelerating development and reducing errors.

These widgets are built for interaction, with the ability to inject client- or server-side triggers. This further streamlines the UX development process, boosting productivity and allowing developers to focus on creating excellent user experiences without needing to manually integrate UX elements.

Why this matters

The introduction of the UX Interface and Uniface UX widgets represents a significant change in how enterprise applications are developed and maintained:

• Faster development: Removing front-end coding requirements enables developers to create visually engaging applications more quickly. The plug-and-play approach helps teams bring products to market faster and with fewer errors.
• Lower maintenance costs: Separating business logic from the user interface reduces complexity, making maintenance easier. The ability to inject triggers and customize widgets without altering core code means fewer bugs and simpler updates.
• Consistent user experience: Uniface UX’s pre-built widgets provide a unified, professional look and feel across applications, improving user satisfaction.
• Accessibility: With built-in accessibility features, Uniface UX ensures your applications are inclusive, helping you reach more users while meeting legal and ethical standards.
• Future-proofing: Uniface UX widgets are forward-compatible, so your applications remain adaptable as technology evolves, without the need for major code overhauls.

Who benefits?

The new UX Interface and Uniface UX design system are especially beneficial for solution architects, solution providers, and developers building enterprise-level applications. Today’s IT standard means delivering robust solutions quickly while maintaining high levels of usability, accessibility, and scalability. Uniface 10.4.03 facilitates all this without complex coding or tedious maintenance.

By using Uniface UX’s pre-built widgets, developers can focus on building applications that users love. This leads to faster time to market, cleaner code, and a more consistent and modern user experience.

Final thoughts: Uniface 10.4.03— a modern solution for your development challenges 

Uniface 10.4.03, with its UX Interface and Uniface UX design system, transforms how developers create user interfaces for enterprise applications. With pre-built, customizable, and accessible widgets, it accelerates development, reduces maintenance costs, and ensures a consistent and modern user experience. Most importantly, it enables developers to focus on building exceptional applications that meet today’s user needs.

Rocket Software’s commitment to simplifying development while enhancing the quality of enterprise applications is clear in this release. Whether you’re a developer, solution architect, or provider, Uniface’s new UX capabilities will make your job easier and your applications more effective — without writing a single line of front-end code. Embrace the future of application development with Uniface 10.4.03 and Uniface UX.

Happy coding!