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Resolved Deploying powerbuilder applications on the web

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  1. kamal kapur
    kamal kapur
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  3. Thursday, 14 March 2019 00:00 AM UTC

I want to deploy an ERP system developed in Powerbuilder 2017 on the web. Appeon's solution is to use PowerServer which has the severe limitation of working only with Windows clients (IE, Firefox on Windows pc) only. How do I make the application available to clients on Linux and OSX ? What are the Appeon components required for doing this?

 

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Sivaprakash BKR
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  1. Saturday, 6 April 2019 06:14 AM UTC
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IMO,  Solutions and limitations we have with PB 2019

1.  It's some how easier and time saving to convert existing projects to Cloud.  Reasult is an Windows App, which will work with any Windows [ full fledged ].  Think it won't work in Windows Mobile.

2.  For newer Cloud projects, create dw/ds, convert to C#, write other codes in Powerscript, run, check, test, deploy.   This way one can retain existing team.   

3.  For multi-os projects, with HTML/CSS as front-end, no easy solution available, even with 2019 revision, without  a good rewrite.   Appeon should think about this limitation and address this issue as well.

Happiness Always
BKR Sivaprakash

 

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Saturday, 6 April 2019 19:36 PM UTC
#1 This is possible in PB 2019. You need two project types. PowerScript desktop app and C# Web API. The PowerScript desktop app calls C# Web API using the RESTClient object. In PB 2021 we plan to make the desktop app easy to install and update over the Internet.



#2 This is possible in PB 2019. Depending on what UI technology you will use, either you would create a C# Web API or C# assembly project. C# DataStore is provided as well as tool for converting any existing PowerScript DW/DS to C# DataStore.



#3 Yes, it is correct there is no magic solution to migrate existing PB desktop apps to HTML/CSS UI. This would be a hand coding effort for the UI layer. However, the business logic layer can be migrated to C# with the C# DataStore, and we are working on developing a PowerScript-to-C# code converter.
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Matthieu CHOMIENNE
  1. Matthieu CHOMIENNE
  2. Monday, 15 April 2019 12:47 PM UTC
#3 @Armeen Why do you focus always on migrating desktop app to HTML... Where is the web datawindow ? there was a system to generate a full HTML/CSS/JS "screen" from a datawindow and you remove it. Some work on this functionality would have saved a lot of time to those who used it...
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