The CommonPoint system's value to developers

• By writing components instead of huge applications, developers can break down the problem in logical ways to aid development and focus on their areas of expertise. The CommonPoint application system provides a great deal of functionality to developers in the form of extensible frameworks and reusable objects, thus enabling them to develop more powerful components in less time.
• Developers can focus on their unique area of expertise and can target more specialized user markets, leveraging the code reuse inherent in the CommonPoint frameworks. For example, a developer can build a word processor tailored to a specialized user, such as an insurance claims processor or a legal assistant. To do so in an existing system would require writing all aspects of functionality from scratch.
• Developers can be assured that their products will work seamlessly with the rest of the user's environment. The CommonPoint system is designed so that developers don't have to write everything themselves to fit into the CommonPoint environment.
• Because the CommonPoint application system is platform-independent, developers should be able to write one version to run on all high-volume platforms.