Objectives

The objective of this chapter is to provide some guidelines on how effective analysis and design can help promote the development of more efficient and robust distributed applications. This chapter also highlights where, during the analysis and design stages, you can control the specification of items that are unique to the PowerBuilder/EAServer development requirements.

Developers have already discovered just how different developing a distributed application is compared to developing a client/server application. There are more interactions, more scenarios, and more tools to consider. Before you start coding, you need to get a good grip on what you need to do. In other words, if you start your analysis and design with the specific ...

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