<Em>Rapid Application Generation of Business and Finance Software</em> describes a method for developing wide ranging computing applications with emerging software technologies. The pressure of the market place calls for reducing the time to market of new software applications. This book shows how to build such software faster and more reliably. <br/> Using an elegant concept of extended tools, the book presents a method for the constructive building of 'hybrid' applications. The book includes such application areas as direct marketing, banking insurance and executive information systems. The methods used adopt the latest object-oriented and client-server techniques. <br/> <em>Rapid Application Generation of Business and Finance Software</em> is an important book for computer scientists working on rapid application development. It is also of interest to information systems specialists.