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Consuming Amazon Web Services Using PowerBuilder and SQL Anywhere 10.0.1

I rolled a little application using SQL Anywhere, PowerBuilder, and Amazon Web Services
By Deanne M. Chance
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January 4, 2008 05:00 PM EST
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Since I'm in the middle of moving to a new city and need to get organized, I thought I'd roll a little application using SQL Anywhere, PowerBuilder, and Amazon Web Services to help organize my media collection. In doing so, I'm going to check out some cool features in SQL Anywhere, in particular, consuming Web Services.

Calling Web Services out of your favorite development tool is nothing new. But who knew you could call them out of your favorite database? This opens up a whole world of programming fun. You might be wondering why you'd want to do this. Aside from the obvious - you'd like to access pre-canned code over the Internet - there's a clear advantage to storing your business logic server-side. With that said, let's get started.

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Ms. Chance graduated in 1996 with a degree in computer science from the University of Illinois. She has been a frequent contributor to the PowerBuilder Developer's Journal and gave a key presentation at Sybase TechWave 2005 entitled "A Real-Time Physical Inventory Solution Using PocketBuilder ASA and a WiFi Connection." She has held several engineering positions, starting a career at Motorola where she focused on mobile I.P. by doing real-time embedded programming for the base radio controller group as part of the iDEN/Nextel project.

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