There?s no denying that
the popularity of
PowerBuilder has waned
over the past few years.
Every month I get e-mails
from concerned
PowerBuilder programmers,
most of them worried
about the future of the
language. As you can
probabl...
Though I?m from
California, I?ve been
living in Utah for the
last five years. We moved
here for a project in
1996, intending to stay
only until the project
was over. That project
ended over two years ago,
yet we?re still living
so...
Last month, in a brief
outburst of creative
thought (some would say
crazy thinking), I
proposed to TeamSybase
that the PBL has outlived
its usefulness and should
be ditched. I had a few
arguments that sounded
pretty good to me, and ...
In Part 1, 'The Java
DataWindow' (PBDJ, Vol.
9, issue 2), I examined
the Java DataWindow from
the perspective of a
classic client/server
application that used a
direct JDBC connection to
the database. In Part 2 I
use the same applic...
Welcome to JSP Corner,
Part 4. We'll be adding
some more features to our
eMusic application, which
we started putting
together in Part 3 (PBDJ,
Vol. 8, issue 12). We
looked at the Logon
process and built the
Logon.jsp,
validateLog...
I look up at the clock on
the wall and see I have
five minutes to finish my
final in trigonometry. I
don?t remember taking the
course or attending one
day of class, but here I
am in the back of the
room sweating like I did
at the altar.
In Part 1 (PBDJ, Vol. 9,
issue 2) I provided the
information necessary to
build EAServer
components. I also
introduced the
development work flow, a
set of steps to build an
application using
EAServer components.
Using the workflow...
Struts is an open source
initiative from the
Jakarta Project written
in Java. Sponsored by the
Apache Software
Foundation, the project's
goal is to provide an
open source framework
that's useful for
building Web applications
with ...
Sybase announced the
general availability of
its Sybase Communications
e-Business Solution
(CeBS). It enables
communications service
providers (CSPs) to
leverage the Internet via
a pure, Web-based portal
that automates the sales,
...
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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
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
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