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# Sodium Home Page
## What is Soduim?
Sodium is a new Domain-Specific Language (DSL) especially designed for creating/developing state of the art web based business applications. It has been under development at the moment but ready to be evaluated by developers.
Frontend developer, C developer, database developer etc. are needed. If you want be a contributer, please contact. ([About Me](/sodium_documentation/about-me.md)).
## What is the Motivation To Develop a New Software Language ?
* **Specially tailored for web based CRUD application development**\
Current software development languages (php, asp, jsp, asp.net, etc) and frameworks (JSF, AngularJS, ExtJs) are not solely designed for CRUD application. They are general-purpose development tools.\
If you ;
* need to develop just a web based CRUD application (not device driver, game, etc, a dll or exe),
* have limited time for coding,
* do not want to spend time to
* learn frameworks/libraries/third party add-ons etc
* learn some advanced topics like transaction management, dependency injection, persistence, object-relational mapping etc.
* upgrade frameworks/libraries/third party add-ons etc
* make configuration You should try Sodium.
* [Native SQL support](/sodium_documentation/language-reference/native-sql-support.md)\
You can write SQL commands/scripts in code behind file as a first class native language commands. Unlike LINQ, you do not need to learn a special syntax for SQL commands. All syntax are accepted if it is a valid for database server. For more information [Native SQL support](/sodium_documentation/language-reference/native-sql-support.md). Example:
```
void button_clicked() {
/* Select statement */
rsCounties = select county_name as label,
county_id as value
from
htsql.counties
order by
county_name;
if (rsCounties) then
message(rsCounties.label);
end if;
/* Insert statement */
insert into hr.deps (DEP_ID, DEP_NAME) values (htsql_test.nextval, :depname);
/* Update statement */
update hr.deps
set
dep_name = 'HR'
where
dep_name like '%'|| :col || '%';
/* Delete statement */
delete
hr.deps
where
dep_name = :dep_name;
/* Sub query */
delete hr.emps
where dep_id in (select dep_id from deps where region_id like '%' || :param || '%');
/* PL/SQL Anonymous block */
begin
for i in (select * from hr.emps e where e.retired = 'F') loop
calculate_salary(i.emp_id);
end loop;
end;
}
```
* **Server and Client Side support**\
Current web based languages/frameworks are designed to run either on server or client. Sodium is designed to run on both. All things are handled Sodium engine transparently.
* **No dependency**\
All features written on this list are provided without third-party plug-ins, frameworks, code libraries, etc.
* **Easy to learn**\
**On server**: You do not need to learn some advanced topics/libraries such as Object Relational Mappings (ORM) tools, dependency injection, transaction management, user interface libraries, design patterns, etc.\
**On client:** No java script knowledge required, no CSS knowledge required, No library/framework required (JQuery, AngularJS, ExtJs, bootstrap for mobile support)
* **Native cached memory database support**
* **Easy to maintain**\
All requirements are handled in a standard way so developers easily find the code blocks to make corrections.
* **Quick and Easy Installation**\
No database repository needed\
No ODBC or OLE DB installation/configuration needed.
* **Basic HTML knowledge for visual design**\
No special IDE needed. Works with WYSWYG tools/applications.
* **Built-in AJAX support**
* **Built-in mobile support**
* **Fast**\
Sodium is especially designed for fast response time. Therefore,
* it is developed using C language as a native Executable application.
* Sodium does not use ODBC, OLE DB or other third party frameworks. It makes **`oci.dll`** calls for Oracle, **`libpq.dll`** calls for Postgresql and **`libmysql.dll`** for MySql in order to fast access.
* **Web based**
* **Safe**
* **Absolutely free**
* **Support all major browsers**
* **No character encoding problem. Works well with database/client language/territory settings**
## How does Sodium works ?
### Components
* **SodiumServer.exe:**
64bit Http Server
* **SodiumDebugger.exe:**
64bit Windows Native Debugger especially designed for Sodium
* **DBInt.dll:**
Sodium-To-RDBMS generic interface
* **DBInt-Oracle.dll**
DBInt implementation for Oracle
* **DBInt-Postgresql.dll**
DBInt implementation for PostgreSql
* **DBInt-MySql.dll:**
DBInt implementation for MySql
* **SodiumExtension.dll:**
Sodium language Http Server plug-in
* **SodiumShared.dll:**
Shared code repository for all modules listed above
Whenever a \*.frmx file request (with frmx extension) has been made to the Http Server (SodiumServer.exe), It delivers that request to the Sodium Server plug-in (SodiumExtension.dll). Sodium plug-in process the request and response accordingly.
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