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eBusiness Applications releases new software

eBusiness Applications, Inc., a provider of market-leading AJAX-based enterprise software components, today launched EBA: Web ComboBox V3.0 to ASP.NET, J2EE, PHP and Classic ASP web application developers. V3 builds on core functionality developed to provide intelligent on-the-fly data retrieval on a web page. Software developers can use the component in web based forms to allow access to large databases in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, and Camino web browsers, and end users will be able to interact with data in a smooth interface that is like the desktop experience. Web ComboBox will provide functionality similar to what has been seen in popular desktop applications, and more recently in Google`s popular GMail and Suggest applications.

Business users prefer to work with web applications that are as easy to use as traditional desktop applications. That`s where AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) based software is playing a major role. AJAX allows faster and more intuitive interfaces with data, says Andre Charland, President of EBA. Our components allow developers to provide this technology quickly and easily. Web ComboBox V3 evolves the user experience by allowing people to carry out tasks such as bringing up customer records, or quickly performing "fuzzy" searches for hidden information, without ever refreshing the page. By being able to perform data entry and search tasks more quickly, the time saved by companies will be significant.

Through a combination of traditional and non-traditional fuzzy search techniques, Web ComboBox V3 provides dramatically improved methods of selecting from thousands of records in real time. In a web form that asks the user to choose a product from a database of a million possible choices, the user is able to type a short portion of a product name or vendor and instantly see an ordered list of the top 10 most likely choices. This differs from traditional web based lookup controls that require the user to select a record based on the beginning of the word only. Web ComboBox V3 goes a step further and allows users to make multiple selections, and even browse through the data or make iterative searches based on progressively more detailed information. Upon selection, other form fields can be filled with the details of that selection in real time.