Developers working to deliver advanced client/server solutions in an open ODBC environment need tools that foster collaborative development and application management. Powersoft's PowerBuilder Team/ODBC facilitates a team approach to sharing work, enforcing standards, and controlling the complete team development effort.
PowerBuilder Team/ODBC for Windows is a comprehensive tool for building Windows 3.1 client/server applications. It combines intuitive graphical painters with an exten-sible object-oriented programming language, and it features connectivity to server databases through full ODBC support.
For team development, PowerBuilder Team/ODBCoffers a centralized object library/source manager, an application configuration manager, and interfaces to leading version control technologies all the tools you'll need for team development and simplified deployment of client/server applications.
PowerBuilder Team/ODBC offers feature-rich development:
Comprehensive Windows 3.1-- for all Windows controls, events, and functions. Advanced graphical interface capabilities include support for Multiple Document Interface (MDI) applications with minimal coding.
Configurable Toolbars with PowerTips --toolbars are movable, customizable, and quickly configured. PowerTips give the name and function of each icon.
PowerScript Programming Language --an extensible, object-oriented language that provides access to hundreds of built-in functions. Developers can write custom functions or access existing functions written in C or other languages. An incremental compiler and full-featured debugger are included.
Desktop Integration--OLE 2.0 containers and automation, Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs), and Visual Basic controls (VBXs).
Developer Assistance--with a Quick Application Generator and a comprehensive set of online code examples that assist in rapid prototyping and development. A library of PowerBuilder sample applications is provided as a learning aid, and an extensive help facility and complete documentation (in electronic format) puts technical information at your fingertips.
Powerful object-oriented technology allows developers to rapidly create Windows applications without specialized knowledge or complicated programming. PowerBuilder Team/ODBC supports the definition of classes for modeling visual and non-visual business objects. It also provides support for other key object-oriented programming features, including multi-level inheritance, encapsulation of data and processing logic, and polymorphism. These capabilities ensure consistency in applications, increased productivity, and minimized maintenance costs.
You can take advantage of a built-in, comprehensive library of reusable objects, or choose from a number of commercial class libraries designed specifically for PowerBuilder.
Allowing database manipulation without coding SQL, the intelligent DataWindow understands the unique functionality of each supported database you simply select a data source and presentation style, and the DataWindow directly manages the interaction and manipulation of the database.
The built-in, single-user 32-bit Watcom SQL database, with its powerful, advanced features including referential integrity and bi-directional, scrollable, and updatable cursors is uniquely positioned to satisfy desktop database needs.
Full support for ODBC enables access to a variety of strategic back-end databases. PowerBuilder Team/ODBC also includes ODBCdrivers for accessing popular desktop database formats.
The Data Pipeline, the PowerBuilder Team/ODBC's data migration and replication utility, copies tables and their data from one database to another even if the data resides in different locations or DBMSs.
For database administration, PowerBuilder Team/ODBC provides point-and-click simplicity. Developers can create or alter tables, define referential integrity rules, administer database security, specify application design repository information, and more.
PowerBuilder Team/ODBC allows even the largest application development teams to be more productive. The central check-in/check-out feature lets developers control access to objects. An interface to leading source management facilities such as INTERSOLV's PVCS and LEGENT's ENDEVOR is also included.
The Application Painter displays a graphical hierarchy of the entire application, simplifying application management and allowing a quick overview of development work. Developers can then move directly to the appropriate painter to modify PowerBuilder objects.
PowerBuilder Team/ODBC provides an intuitive interface for building and deploying applications. The Project Painter maintains an application's deployment file configuration, and an install disk builder allows developers to create PowerBuilder setup disks that simplify application distribution. Applications can be deployed royalty free.
PowerBuilder Team/ODBC simplifies querying, with a graphical query builder and a multi-table QuickSelect. Save queries as objects, then use them as data sources for a variety of reports.
PowerBuilder Team/ODBC's banded report writer supports an impressive array of report types: freeform, tabular, control break, cross-tab, labels, composite, and more. A powerful business graphics engine provides 2D and 3D pie, bar, column, line, scatter, and area graphs.
FUNCky for PowerBuilder is an optional extension to the PowerScript language. It offers nearly 500 additional functions, powerful programming constructs, and system level capabilities.
As you expand single-user, Watcom-based applications to a multi-user environment, you can seamlessly upgrade to the high-performance family of Watcom SQL Advanced Network Servers for Windows, Windows NT, NetWare, and OS/2. You can also add Powersoft's InfoMaker, the complete tool for personal data access, management, and reporting. InfoMaker enables the creation of presentation-quality reports, and easy-to-define queries without any programming.
Powersoft's Client/server Open Development Environment (CODE) extends Powersoft's core technology to best-of-class products that cover every aspect of computing across the enterprise, from monitors for remote procedure calls and transaction processing to data modeling and automated testing.
PowerBuilder Enterprise is part of the Powersoft Enterprise Series, including PowerBuilder Team/ODBC, PowerBuilder Desktop, and InfoMaker. This family of scalable development tools increases productivity at every level throughout the enterprise, and promotes an integrated environment for IS developers and end users alike. Powersoft's Client/Server Open Development Environment (CODE) extends Powersoft's core technology to best-of-class products that cover every aspect of computing across the enterprise, from monitors for remote procedure calls and transaction processing to data modeling and automated testing.
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