In the face of the rapid changes in the market, corporate strategy applications must also have a new field of view. Enterprises first need to build new, innovative applications, but it can not only drive the company's forward development, but also enhance and expand the existing application portfolio. Moreover, companies need a wise strategic plan, which must be introduced into new technologies and platforms, without having to give up reliable, mature client / server architecture. Enterprises require maximum freedom, so they can choose the most appropriate platform for applications and users. In addition, complex computational environments require good organizational, high-efficiency development practices, not only to support difficult-to-count applications, web servers, browsers, web services, and business rules - but also face continuous changes. Of course, it is also an extremely important issue to reduce development costs. Economic pressure is compressing budget preparation and personnel equipping, but the requirements for IT professionals are growing. How can we reduce the initial and medium-term costs? The requirements for the bottom line requirements of the business and commercial application developers cannot be reduced. Enterprises need a high-speed integrated development environment that gives the highest efficiency, reliability, functionality, and flexibility to the company. In addition, it can support a variety of client selection, change business processes, and rapid development technologies. platform. Sybase PowerBuilder is this product, which is a open RAD integration development environment (IDE) for all application architecture. With PowerBuilder, you can access many object models, communicate with standard protocols, and configure them on a variety of platforms. [Product Overview] Sybase PowerBuilder (PB) As a development tool for "Rapid Building Commercial Applications", in 1991, it was a sensation in the industry. IDC is called "Gold Standard" - a benchmark for measuring all application development tools. Previously, the PowerBuilder 8.0 version was well received by users. Now, the world's leading data management and corporate integration solution providers Sybase has leaned for refining, once again introduced new PowerBuilder 9.0 for the majority of companies, on the basis of the original PB 8.0, this latest version provides a more open development environment. And expand a lot of new features, specific: ● Rad JavaSever Page (JSP) Targets - Developers can use Wizards and other RAD tools, rapid development, deployment of JSP network applications ● Web Services- - Developers do not need to have a deep SOAP protocol or WSDL, you can create, publish, and complete the network service system in Microsoft .NET or other architecture environments. ● XML DataWindow - Enter data directly from an XML document, or store data recovered from any data source as a fully user-type XML document, and can also be stored as a PDF or XSL formatted object. ● Powebuilder Native Interface - By bundling a C standard complementary part, it greatly expands the function of PowerBuilder application development, calling its method in the system, and through the JNI, Java applications, can also communicate with PBVM. ● Third-Party Application Servers - In addition to support for existing Sybase Easerver, PowerBuilder also implements support for BEA WebLogic ServerTM, IBM WebSphere, and other J2EE application development servers. ● The PowerBuilder Document Object Model - Sybase product Performs a Document Object Module (DOM) that can be stored or operating an XML file. This feature (PBDOM) is used to read, write, and operating the standard format XML from the PowerScript source code. ● PDF Report Generaton - provides two ways to save the DataWindow object to enable them to directly generate reports in the PDF format.
This type of extraction method is applied by default and saves all types of DataWindow objects. ● Source Control Enhancements - Helps developers more effectively manage large PowerBuilder projects and achieve more closely integral with Rational ClearCase and Merang PVCs. ● ORCAScript utility - An ORCA application can be called with a natural language similar to English. The new source control integration can generate the target object directly according to the source control. [Features] (1) Advanced 4GLPLUS Basics PowerBuilder9.0 is the first "4GLPLUS" platform in the industry, which poses the opening of 4GLPLUS. The 4GLPlus of PowerBuilder 9.0 provides a wide range of new development features and integration features for: J2EETM, Microsoft .NETTM, client / server, web server, language integration, design / modeling synchronization, N-layer structure, version control , Scripts and many other situations. All of these features are integrated, and PowerBuilder9.0 provides developers with unprecedented flexibility and can help them apply the correct architecture and development mode to the correct application. PowerBuilder9.0 allows users to quickly create and configure persistent enterprise or business-level applications, change the existing business model by growing income, improving user efficiency, enhancing customer service, and more closely working. (2) Diverse applicability ● Extended users' client / server combination for key applications, there is no fixed program. How to deal with these unavoidable changes? Use PowerBuilder Native Interface (PBNI), a new, powerful application programming interface. Use PBNi to extend the functionality and vitality of the existing PowerBuilder application to C and Java programs, open a new world and market for them. Now, users can bring a client / server program in the Maintenance Status to a new, previously unacceptable environment. ● Use N-Tier and the Web architecture to successfully apply the accuracy, capability, speed, and simplicity of PowerBuilder to Web and distributed applications. Users can bring users' programs, users and skills to Web and distributed operations without discarding anything. Reuse users already created, complex DataWindows or build new DataWindows in new web programs. Simply drag the mouse to create a complex SQL statement, the generated powerful thin client application will provide data operation, verification, formatting, and manifestation of users familiar. Now, users can support a mixture of different types, consisting of client / servers, N-layer structures, and web programs - a reasonable mixture - only a powerful integrated development environment: PowerBuilder. ● Microsoft .NET and J2EE's preparation PowerBuilder 9.0 marks the first time to support Microsoft .NET and integrate with powerful J2EE at higher levels. As a first phase of .NET integration, PowerBuilder 9.0 can generate and use web services, which makes .NET programmers fully utilize the DataWindow and DataStore mode advantages. In the future, the integrated plan with .NET includes the ability to compile into MSIL code and enable programmers to use .NET combo controls, such as preview, tabs, etc. to establish .NET applications. PowerBuilder has been able to support J2EE development and configuration by PowerBuilder.
In the latest version, PowerBuilder helps users can access any J2EETM compatible application servers (including IBM® WebSphere® Application Server, BEA WebLogicTM Server, and other J2EE application servers). Use PowerBuilder Web services at the same time. Users can also create the JavaServer PagesTM (JSP) application of the RAD type using PowerBuilder. Also, in order to integrate the PowerBuilder application with the J2EE or .NET framework, you can use PowerBuilder's Web Services feature. (III) Using integrated development and design, excellent results Sybase PowerBuilder is more closely integrated with Sybase PowerDesigner, bringing high levels of accurate, speed and intelligence to client / server development work. It redesigned existing application logic, change it in PowerDesigner to support new business requirements and reflects these changes into the PowerBuilder application. This reduces the time and cost required for maintaining and expanding client / server applications. The new features provided by PowerDesigner can extract all objects and code from PowerBuilder 9.0, and no longer just NVO. This greatly simplifies the maintenance of existing applications, even if the initial developers have left the company, no concerns. More meaningful is that PowerDesigner allows users to extend old PB applications to new architecture - even if those programs are not written in accordance with object-oriented principles. The more smoothly cooperated with PowerDesigner, the longer the 4GLPLUS development plan. (4) Converged powerful features Powerbuilder 9.0 has a new generation of development capabilities in technology frontiers, which can promote program development to a higher level. ● Powerbuilder Document Object Model PowerBuilder's Document Object Model (PBDOM) is created, read, written and operated and operates a complete API of XML documents by using standard PowerScript. The PBDOM is built using PowerBuilder Native Interface technology in a non-visual class. ● XML DataWindow DataWindow is Powerbuilder's patented technology, which integrates the powerful functionality of XML into the development project. A new view of the DataWindow Painter constructs the XML template to a part of the DataWindow object. These templates can import or export XML data within a variety of conventional architectures. The DataWindow demo can also be saved as XSL-FO for describing the XML language of page reporting, printing, and XML-TO-PDF applications. ● RAD JavaServer PagesTM PowerBuilder 9.0 includes a convenient development environment for writing JSP web applications that automate many development work and allows you to configure web applications. Users can directly configure the JSP Web target from PowerBuilder to Easerver or Tomcat, and a command line option allows users to configure them into other popular JSP containers. ● Web Service Wizard PowerBuilder IDE's Web Service Wizard creates a proxy object or a traditional Tag library that contains the necessary information from the PowerBuilder application or JSP page. The Web service is the first phase in several phases to support the Microsoft .NET Framework Plan.
● Sybase has always developed the cutting-edge standard for the excellent integrated development environment for many years for the next generation of IDEs. Now, through version 9.0, Sybase contributes the power (IDE2) of geometric grade growth (IDE2) to cross the development step, style (PARADIGMS) and platform, and once again announced that it continues to lead the fast application development committed to. [Summary] PowerBuilder developers can use various new applications with various new applications through PowerBuilder 9.0, and build Native Interfaces to lay the foundation for a variety of different languages and development environments. By expanding PowerBuilder's support for interoperability standards; efforts to establish a transparent association with the deployment environment (WebSphere, 9IAS and WebLogic), and leadership development environment platform (Java and .NET), Sybase will maintain the advantage of PowerBuilder. Stephen D. Hendrick, vice president of IDC Application Development Research Group, pointed out that "application development solutions for professional developers, need to be easy to use, high efficiency, and combined with various different architectures and development tools. Powerbuilder 9.0 Combined with new, super functionality to adapt to the different needs of all kinds of main development environments. "Indeed, whether it is for Sybase or Powerbuilder developers, PowerBuilder 9.0 is an important version because it has necessary Features To ensure that PowerBuilder and PowerBuilder developers can get support for mainstream application development methods. For the prospect of PowerBuilder 9.0, IDC said: "Convinced this important program to win a unified development tool market." [Record] In order to meet the needs of increasing users mobile business activities, Sybase has announced, Powerbuilder (PB) series The product will launch the test version of Pocket Powerbuilder1.0. Pocket PowerBuilder 1.0 is a new fast application development tool that provides the industry's first high efficiency mobile application development platform - 4GL IDE. At the same time, the Pocket PB1.0 beta is closely integrated with the Sybase Tip Mobile Business Database and Enterprise Synchronous Solutions, and the powerful Sybase DataWindow feature is extended to the mobile application development environment, which greatly improves mobile, handheld and wireless Development speed of enterprise WinCE application. Pocket PB1.0 Test Edition specific new features include: ● Provides the industry's first high efficiency mobile application development platform -4GL IDE. Its functionality can be comparable to 4GLPLUS. ● Extend the powerful function of Sybase DataWindow to the mobile development environment. Developers can easily access data display formats and data operations such as data. ● Tightly integrate with SQL IAnywhere Studio, effectively simplify the development of the creation of database-based mobile enterprise applications. For more information, please login: www.sybase.com.cn
