Last year I wrote that as
broadband became the
standard for Internet
access, important
inhibitors to WWW
offerings and use would
be removed, resulting in
a dramatic change in the
WWW itself. I said that
Web sites would become
more...
Many of us started
playing around with Java
several years ago,
fighting our way through
CLASSPATH variables,
packages, and javac.exe,
and ended up with our
first 'Hello World' or
file read/write/close
application. What did we
use ...
PowerBuilder 8.0 was
launched in conjunction
with the 10th anniversary
of the product and, by
all accounts, it has
exceeded everyone's
expectations (...and
there was much
rejoicing!). The
enhancements in this
release focus
spec...
Have you written any
wireless applications
yet? If you haven't, you
soon will be. If you read
the estimates from the
professional research
firms and forecasters,
you'll see they tend to
agree that wireless
advertising, and
ultimat...
Professional Services
staff and customers often
approach me in the office
and at trade shows
seeking advice about
interesting situations
that need creative tools
and solutions. One
particular situation that
comes to mind involves a ...
Let's face it: we would
love to put our
PowerBuilder systems on
the Web. As the industry
trend is to make every
new project
'Web-enabled,' our PB
applications have already
acquired the word
'legacy' in front of
them.
Welcome back to JSP
Corner. In this article
we look at how to build a
simple logon page that
collects data through an
HTML form and sends it to
a JSP page for
processing. This is a
simple task that involves
several aspects of Web
...
Although the collapse of
the Internet company
bubble has slowed it
down, technology is
moving even faster than
ever. Companies can't
afford to rebuild old
applications. There's
just no time and not
enough money to get a
team of developers to
rebuild.
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
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
PowerBuilder 11 deploys
entire applications as
.NET Windows Form or Web
Form applications and
deploys individual
components as .NET
Assemblies and as .NET
Web Services. Version 11
consumes resources of the
default .NET framework as
well as resources of
custom developer-defined
.NET res
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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
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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
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