Last month I started a
series in which I'll be
looking at some of the
important new technology
offerings Sybase showed
at TechWave and share
with you my comments
(good or bad) about those
technologies.
LSG Sky Chefs, a
subsidiary of German
national airline
Lufthansa, is the world's
leading provider of
integrated in-flight
services solutions from
catering, provisioning,
equipment, and retail to
comprehensive in-flight
management ...
What do you do if
suddenly your application
has to be used in another
country, or even in
different areas of the
same nation? English and
French are spoken in
Canada; Italian, French,
and German are spoken in
Italy; and Switzerland ...
In the early 1990s,
before Windows 98, before
Windows 95, before
Windows NT, even before
Windows 3.1, the
DataWindow was being
hatched by a small team
of developers in
Massachusetts. By small,
I mean a single
developer, Kim Sheffi...
Using Object Linking and
Embedding (OLE) from
PowerBuilder - whether in
OLE Automation or the use
of ActiveX controls - has
long been a source of
frustration for many
PowerBuilder developers.
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
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
In keeping with the
longstanding SYS-CON
tradition of being at the
very forefront of
software development with
all its online and
offline resources,
SYS-CON Media &