Also featured is compliance with Section 508 Accessibility rules for application access by disabled persons.

The company is shipping Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform 4.5 and its partner IDE, Nexaweb Studio 3.0. Together, these comprise the Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 suite. Separating Nexaweb's suite from development tools such as Visual Studio or Oracle JDeveloper is that it was built specifically for Web development, said David McFarlane, Nexaweb chief operating officer.

"Basically, all of this has been created to build specifically Web applications, as opposed to any other design environment," McFarlane said.

Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform is described by Nexaweb as a standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 applications. Nexaweb in turn defines Enterprise Web 2.0 as Internet-based applications supporting thousands of users similar to how behind-the-firewall systems function. Examples of these applications could include financial trading or mutual fund accounting systems.

Platform 4.5 features the company's new Universal Client Framework, which accommodates Java and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) client development. Dojo controls are featured as well. Portions of the framework have been submitted to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project entitled eXtensible AJAX Platform.