Extensions and Alternatives
Several companies produced clone versions, with or without extended functionality, such as graphical user interfaces and integrated development environments, some examples being Four Js Development Tools and Querix. A Belgian company (Anubex) and a company in Latin America (Art-in-Soft) built a translator to the Java programming language. There is even a free GPL'ed version called Aubit-4GL. Another company called MoreData developed technology to call any 4GL function in the native 4GL-generated executables from a Java EE application server, using Java Connector Architecture.
Read more about this topic: IBM Informix-4GL
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