What You Can Do with PB Today
As you can see from the text in this chapter, PowerBuilder's role in distributed application development is expanding. With the ability to build JSPs directly in the PB IDE, to the ability to access EJBs from other application servers (such as WebSphere and WebLogic), PowerBuilder is becoming the well-rounded development tool we expected it to be. You can use PowerBuilder as a client to distributed applications ranging from PowerBuilder components in EAServer, to EJB components in virtually any J2EE Application Server, to Web services. PowerBuilder components can still only be deployed to EAServer natively or as COM components to MTS, but as components in EAServer they are accessible to any client, including Java, ...
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