Ive seen other tools that claim to make it easy to create interactive Internet applications how is Spin different?
Spin is an IRAD environment. What does this mean? Spin does not just create the same old web content with some fluff interaction, annoying flashing buttons, or other Internet features added like icing. Spin is the first environment designed to build Internet Applications the same kinds of applications that programmers write but without programming. Spin applications can access databases and legacy applications. Spin can create server-side and client-side applications, to add both dynamic content on the server side, and interaction on the client side. Spin can also be used to create true distributed applications. In fact, the web itself (both server and browser) could be written using Spin. Spin is the first and only standards-based IRAD environment. Applications developed with Spin can run on any Web server or any Web application server. Spin works with other standards-based tools, including programming tools. See the Spin overview page for a discussion of the features that make Spin u
