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Resolved DPBServer - where did it go ? ( Updated - former powerobjects.com) ( +info now)

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  1. Georgios Papageorgiou
    Georgios Papageorgiou
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  3. Saturday, 27 July 2024 05:46 AM UTC

Hi PowerSphere

 

Around 20-25+ years ago - there was a (maybe) free product called DPBServer ( which used the "late" Distributed PowerBuilder object) 

It was pretty awesome - and i was wondering if someone out there had the sourcecode. ( guess PB6.5)

 

I found somethind on webarchive but just info - no sourcecode ( as it was licensed )

PowerTeam - Distributed PowerBuilder (archive.org)

 

Dean Jones  made it - 

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Please look at my DPBServer http://www.powerobjects.com/distributedhome.html

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Dean Jones, CPD Professional
PowerTeam, Inc.
www.powerobjects.com
de...@powerobjects.com

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i know it is a wild shot - but it would pretty awesome  to take this code and modenize it with the winsock object from STD :)

 

PB_Regards

Georgios 

 

 

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Georgios Papageorgiou
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  1. Saturday, 27 July 2024 15:31 PM UTC
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Yes I'm aware og Rolands awesome product.

But I was seekling for the very lightweight implementation (No IIS) as the DPB Server from Dean Jones. ( even though it wouldn't scale)
Exact the same functionality - :)

So i wanted to implement the same syntax as DPB had - just using sockets.
Again i might be on the wrong track - but.... #:)


PB_Regards
Georgios

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Roland Smith
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  2. Monday, 29 July 2024 20:24 PM UTC
Yes. The only restriction is that it can be accessed only from the same machine. Once the license is configured, it can be accessed from anywhere.
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  2. Monday, 29 July 2024 21:26 PM UTC
Perfect. I'll give it a whirl with my framework. Thanks Roland! ;-)
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  2. Tuesday, 30 July 2024 01:44 AM UTC
Hi Roland;

I have the new TopWizWeb installed using the "httpPlatformHandler" approach. The Client & Desktop PB Apps work ok with the PB Web service but the AjaxDemo, DWTable, customer, etc URLs will not work. They error out with the message "A license is required for remote access". This seems strange as those URLs are all LOCALHOST based. As you said, the demos should work without a license as long as it's running on the same developer machine - which I am. Any thoughts as to why I'm being blocked on my PB machine (which is W11 BTW)?

Regards ... Chris
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  1. Saturday, 27 July 2024 11:57 AM UTC
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Hi Georgios;

  Yes, that GREAT feature was killed off by Sybase in PB version 8.0. Sybase wanted to push their ($$$) Jaguar / EAServer product instead of (free) DPB & thus gave up on further DPD releases.   :-(

  However, I would suggest that you have a look at Roland's PB Web product. That allows any combination of non-visual PB objects to run under IIS. Roland has recently revised his IIS adaption to use the new FastCGI IIS feature. This has made this implementation a very performance oriented feature.

  You'll notice in the STD Framework's OrderEntry Demo App that I actually have a dialogue that calls Roland's IIS feature in his demo to return RestFul result sets. Roland's feature supports NVUO's that can return a variety of different result set formats. This also opens back up driving web page based PB Apps. You can even still use the Web DataWindow features still in the PB product today.

FYI: https://www.topwizprogramming.com/topwizweb.html

Food for thought.  HTH 

Regards ... Chris 

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Roland Smith
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  2. Monday, 29 July 2024 13:52 PM UTC
The latest version is based on httpPlatformHandler, not FastCGI.
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