Users can step up to progressively more powerful features of the product as their needs evolve.
The additional features can be dynamically downloaded via the Internet into the development environment. This enables developers to tackle more sophisticated projects using the same environment, leveraging their existing investment. Because the product is built on a common, publicly available code base, users benefit from the continuing enhancements and reliability inherent in an open source model. Forte for Java customers can take advantage of a proven development environment that's available now to begin building Internet services-based applications. The other critical factor is that Forte for Java is based on open source, thereby avoiding any chance of vendor lock in.