However, this is at the expense of portability. This product includes a set of libraries, user interface objects, and visual tools that enable you to create applications that acces s relational databases. These database connections are built on top of the DAS facility and allow database-independent API abstraction. This product also uses an extremely rich portable API set. The Visual Resource Builder provides everything you need to create an attrac tive interface, and the robust API gives you the power to make that interface dance to your native platform's tune.
Application performance is excellent as well.
There are a few things that you should know before you look at Galaxy. Galaxy applications are built with a complex API that has thousands of entry points. It will take time to get up to sp eed with the tool. Also know that you will not find a repository. I see Galaxy as a niche player.