| Using MaxBase, you may have thought "wouldnīt it be great if I could use MaxBase as a GUI to collect user input, letting people perform queries, reports, etc and just focusing on providing a few additional features in my applications.." Thatīs what MaxBase was designed for in the first place. Several vertical applications have been built using MaxBase to date by EffeElle System, and this is the reason why the services around MaxBase continue to expand and improve. We may be a small software house (compared to some giants that we all have learnt to know) , but this doesnīt mean that our customers arenīt demanding. In fact, during the years, often we wished we had products that did all MaxBase does in one place; and thus we ended up building it, sharing our work with you, our colleagues developers. We have divided MaxBase-related technologies into four sections: MaxBase itself (how to use it in your programs), plugins (how to expand MaxBase features), VFD components (how to implement new data types and content handlers) and finally applets (how to insert MaxBase into your web pages). You can mix all of the features you will learn about in the four sections, therefore you could have two or more MaxBase instances collaborating, in a web page, presenting customized kinds of data to the user and so on..