Product History

A major reason for Covalent's success is our commitment to continually developing and enhancing the product in line with customer suggestions and ideas.

Covalent Version 1.0 launched in the UK councils market end September 2003 and delivered a wide range of functionality covering performance indicators, actions tracking and reporting. On a regular basis since, we have introduced successively more feature-rich versions, that also cater for other public sector markets.

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Covalent CPM is an integrated suite of Performance Management software products, developed using Java from Sun Microsystems, in particular the following technologies; Swing, RMI-over-HTTP, Webstart, Servlet. It is a mostly proprietary system, extended in some parts by third party, open source software.

Contributing libraries:

Batik: toolkit to manipulate Scalable Vector Graphics

JFreechart: toolkit to manipulate Scalable Vector Graphics

Jazzy is a set of APIs that allow you to add spell checking functionality to Java Applications.

Jakarta, the Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components

The Apache Software Foundation License

Library for XML, XPath, XSLT on the Java platform

JCalendar, the graphical Java date chooser

Apache POI, Java API To Access Microsoft Format Files

The Free Software Foundation's License

How the LGPL applies to Java