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Introduction
to PowerBuilder...
PowerBuilder is an object-oriented graphical application development tool
that allows you to
build powerful, multitier applications to run on multiple platforms and
to interact with various
databases. PowerBuilder provides all the tools you need to build industrial-strength
applications,
such as order entry, accounting, and manufacturing systems.
PowerBuilder is one of a group of Sybase products that together provide
the tools to develop
client/server, distributed, and Internet applications.
PowerBuilder is frontier among all the front end tools because of the functionality
and flexibility
it provides for graphical application development.
Features
of PowerBuilder...
a. PowerBuilder applications are event driven. Here you write scripts using
PowerScript ,
the PowerBuilder language. Scripts consist of PowerScript commands, functions,
and statements
that perform processing in response to an event.
b. PowerBuilder supports cross platform development. For example, you can
develop an application
using PowerBuilder under Windows (either Windows 95 or Windows NT)
and deploy the very same
application without changeson a Windows 3.1, Macintosh, or UNIX machine.
c. PowerBuilder includes a number of tools that let you build web-based
applications and extend
your existing applications to the Internet.
d. Recent versions of PowerBuilder tool comes with PowerBuilder Foundation
Class Library (PFC).
PFC is a set of PowerBuilder objects that you customize and use to develop
class libraries. You can
use these objects to provide corporate, departmental, or application consistency.
PFC also includes
objects that you use as is for utility purposes such as debugging and tracing.
Links
on PowerBuilder...
Official Website of
PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder Information
White papers
and articles on PowerBuilder
Articles on technical issues on PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder
FAQ
PowerBuilder
Developer's Webring
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