Appeon Powerbuilder 2017 - Advanced

• Duration: 4 days

• Goal: Advanced programming with PowerBuilder 2017

• Pre-requirements: PB basic programming

• Language: Training in Italian and English Language/ I corsi possono essere tenuti in Italiano e in Inglese

• Contents:

Web Service

- WS theory: SOAP and WSDL
- Create a WS and deploy to MS IIS
- Call a WS through a PB proxy
- Call a WS using complex data structures (record array, blob…)
- Write a WS that connects a DB an returns a resultset
- WS DW
- CRUD operations bound to WS DW functions

HTTP protocol

- Handling HTTP request/response
- Example of Internet file download
- A live-update application

Java and PB

- Start the JVM from PB
- Create a Java class and interface from PB
- Create an EJB proxy

Additional Techniques

- Multi-threaded applications in PB
- Automatic handling of XML data in a DW
- PB 12.6 new features: OData, 64bit applications, dockable windows
- PDF

Use .NET components from PB Classic

- Create and call a .NET NVO assembly from PB Classic
- Create and call a .NET VO assembly from PB Classic (e.g. Crystal Reports
Viewer)
- Create a .NET assembly wrapper for smartcards

Powerbuilder future roadmap