PowerBuilder Editorial:
The State of the State
Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase ap
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In his customer facing role, Ian is very involved with the design, production and testing of Enterprise class UnWired Solutions, that have been implemented using Sybase's UnWired tools for Sybase customers around the globe. In addition, Ian is a dedicated technical expert continually working with Sybase's key partners and clients to enhance the capabilities of the UnWired solutions that Sybase can offer to its customers.
As a five-year employee at Sybase, Inc. Ian has experience of working with the ITSG engineering teams, in particular on the EAServer, EP, PowerBuilder, PocketBuilder, PowerJ & OEM products. Amongst his many achievements, and deriving from his commitment to delivering hi-performance solutions, Ian was responsible for the design and implementation of the myPortfolio J2EE demo added to the EAServer distribution. Ian regularly addresses technical audiences all over the world providing profound technical knowledge, and has built up a reputation for being a knowledgeable speaker and his sessions are very well attended. He also writes whitepapers, demos and articles for various Sybase products and published in Journals such as PBDJ from SYS-CON (pbdj.sys-con.com). Ian is also the PocketBuilder Evangelist and works closely with the team in Concord, MA on new features and demonstration for the PocketBuilder product.
SMS or Short Messaging
Service is being used by
millions of mobile phone
users as you read this
article. Here is a
fact...Sybase 365 aids
the delivery of nearly 6
billion messages each
month. Originally limited
to 160 characters and the
small phone keyboard, SMS
l...
August is always an
interesting month for me
at Sybase. It's the month
Sybase holds its User
Training & Solutions
Conference and employees
like me get to meet a lot
of customers and partners
face-to-face. This year
was no exception and I
was thrilled to meet the
f...
August is always an
interesting month for me
at Sybase, as it's the
month when Sybase holds
their User Training &
Solutions Conference and
employees like myself get
to meet a lot of
customers and partners
face to face. This year
was no exception - I was
thrilled t...
As Sybase's largest
annual technical training
conference, TechWave is
the place to meet the
experts, hear first-hand
what's new, and network
with thousands of
industry professionals
like you. It also
contains a wealth of
in-depth content that
would be hard to find...
In this article I'll
cover how a model-driven
design and development
process can pave the way
to a Service Oriented
Architecture that will in
turn produce accurate
applications that meet
business needs and
increase development team
productivity. 
In this article I'll
cover how a model-driven
design and development
process can pave the way
to a Service Oriented
Architecture that will in
turn produce accurate
applications that meet
business needs and
increase development team
productivity. 
Pick up any book or
article on Service
Oriented Architecture
(SOA) and somewhere in
the text will be the
statement that SOA isn't
about throwing away
existing systems and
redeveloping them, but
integrating them into new
SOA processes, SOA
processes that are
flex...
In my last few articles I
have tried to show how to
build Business Processes
(BPs) and how to use them
with PowerBuilder. This
article will cover how to
build a simple JSF within
Sybase WorkSpace to call
those BPs. My engineering
colleague Jean Choi wrote
recently a...
In this article I want to
show you how easy it is
to use the new Avaki
perspective and what you
can achieve in the areas
of Data Federation and
Integration. This feature
is newly available within
Sybase WorkSpace v1.6 and
integrated into the
Workbench IDE (Integrate...
In my last article I
showed you how to expose
a PowerBuilder component
on an EAServer as a Web
Service that could then
be orchestrated into a
Business Process Service
in Unwired Orchestrator
with Sybase WorkSpace. In
this article I want to
attack the big picture
f...
This article describes
the synergies between
PowerBuilder and Sybase
WorkSpace for
services-oriented
development and shows how
to use a PowerBuilder
component in Sybase
WorkSpace 1.5.
You may be asking
yourself, what's
happening in the
Microsoft Windows Mobile
space? Well, Reed Shilts
(in his trademark
Hawaiian and
PocketBuilder slogan
shirts) and I attended
Microsoft's MEDC 2005,
Mobile & Embedded
Developers Conference,
which took place in L...
Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be
Sybase has just released
the latest version of its
premier .NET development
tool in PowerBuilder
version 11.2. I am proud
to say that I haven't
missed a beta since
November 1989 (version
0.8) and that includes
PocketBuilder and
InfoMaker too. I need to
thank the people at
Sybase for co
In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and Web Forms
applications (as well as
assemblies and Web
Services) that access
Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJBs) in Sybase's own
EAServer. As you'll see
over the course of this
article, integratin
HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harvest. It
handles the special
requirements of checking
objects out to
PowerBuilder Libraries
(PBLs) and checking
objects in from PBLs.
These operations are
non-standard to most
source cont
Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder.
Phase 1 was the
implementation of web
services in PB9 and Phase
2 was the release of
DataWindow.NET, which was
packaged with PB 10.
Phases 3 and 4 were the
more significant phases.
In P
I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: When did
Sybase develop the
product and how did it
evolve? I keep telling
this story and answering
e-mails on the subject. I
am now to the point where
I have decided that I
should have PBD
I began my career at RCA
Aerospace and Defense in
1983 and worked at MITRE
Corp., BAE Systems, and
the State of NH. I worked
in the defense field
performing software