Technologies That Use or Affect PowerBuilder

Other technologies already interact with PowerBuilder in some way, and we foresee this trend growing. This section discusses some of these technologies.

Appeon for PowerBuilder

One of the biggest stories of 2003 is the release of Appeon for PowerBuilder. Appeon will automatically convert an existing PowerBuilder into a Web-based application. It will do this while retaining the look and feel of the client/server application, and it will keep the actual source code in PowerBuilder. If you need to change the Web application, you will make that change in the PowerBuilder IDE.

At the time of writing, Appeon did not support PFC-based applications, but plans were afoot to support the applications in the near ...

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