Features

Layouts

Designer
List, Form, Fly
Responsive
Control Panel
Grouped lists
Infinite number of layouts per view
Toolbars, tasks in grid
Preview / Edit in popup (Sweezebox)

Fields

Most used field types
Files & Images
PHP + JS Validator
Modal Pickers
Google Map (JDom feature)
Database keys : (required, index, unique, ...)

Database

Designer & Diagram
Dataset manager
Dataset inclusion
Download Dataset (SQL alone)

Filters & Searches

Combo lists
Boolean
Enumerations
Foreign Keys
Range
Multi Searches
Date & Time Calendar
Menu filters
Ajax filters
Auto filter for user

Model automations

(Wizards)

Ordering
Viewlevels (ACL)
Aliasing
Hits
Defaulting
Unique Group
Date tracking (creation,modification)
States (publish,trash,archive)
Authoring (creator,modifior)
Check out system (multiusers)

Toolbars

Native task buttons
Front-end able
Tasks in grid
Edit in popup
ACL on rendering
ACL for actions

Redirector

Reuse dynamic values
to compose a redirection

To an item
To a foreign view
To a filtered content
Based on the action result

Modal boxes

Image preview
Item preview
Edit in popup
List picker

Relations

Foreign Keys
Many to Many (N:m)
One to Many (N:1)
Integrities
Propagate accesses (ACL)

Files & Images

Files

File uploader
Indirect access (optional)

Images

Thumbs (cache files)
Crop, Fit, Center

Installer

Installation scripts
Embed third extensions
SQL scripts (dataset, versions steps)

Engine

Loader
Full CRUD
SEF / router
Dataset integration
Component config.
Access Control Lists
Kill the post
Multilanguage (except contents)
Form Lock (prevent from navigation)
Mini ajax framework (Hook)
Framework On Framework (optional)

ORM System

Ask it, Get it
Human language SQL builder

Columns selection
Foreign Values (namespaces)
Relations
Accesses
Filters & Searches
Ordering & Pagination
Contextes
Headless : getData()

JDom

HTML Rendering Framework

Static call
Any control, anywhere
Namespaced tree
Customizable easily

Examples : Toolbar / Control panel / Form fields / List controls / Ajax / Google Map

Open Source : github.com/Cook-Self-Service/JDom

Sandbox

Test your creations for free
Super Admin access
Virtual users for testing ACL
Create and keep your datasets

Developer

Fork system
Source code preferences

Community

Forum & Support
Features Requests (vote)
Audio Chat Room (teamspeak)

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The j-cook project is indeed one of the best tools I've run across for building Joomla components and the beta version should make things even better!.

dyoungers (Forum)