Editions

Appeon for PowerBuilder 2015 contains the following editions.

Table 1. Appeon edition

OS

Editions

Application Servers

Windows

Enterprise Edition

Workgroup Edition

Developer Edition

Trial Edition

Microsoft .NET Framework\IIS

JBoss

Oracle WebLogic

IBM WebSphere

TmaxSoft JEUS

SAP EAServer

Unix (IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, HP Unix), Linux (RedHat Linux)

Enterprise Edition

Workgroup Edition

JBoss

Oracle WebLogic

IBM WebSphere

TmaxSoft JEUS

SAP EAServer


Because of differences between different application servers (.NET Framework\IIS, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, EAServer, or JEUS) and different platforms (Windows and Linux\Unix), some features are only available in certain circumstance. Refer to the following table for details.

Table 2. Feature difference

Feature

.NET (IIS)

JBoss\WebLogic\WebSphere\JEUS

EAServer

Windows

Windows\Linux\Unix

Windows

Linux\Unix

PowerBuilder NVOs[a]

-

-

Yes

Yes

Save As WMF format

-

-

Yes

Yes

AppeonDataWindow and AppeonDataStore

-

-

Yes

Yes

Distributed DataWindows

-

-

Yes

-

Web Demos

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

EJB Components

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

Com/Com+/NET Components

Yes

-

-

-

DataWindow Data Caching[b]

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

LDAP Security

Yes[c]

Yes

Yes

Yes

[a] PB NVOs are supported by EAServer only, and at the same time the corresponding version of PBVM must be installed.

[b] All types of Appeon Server support Application Server data cache and client-side data cache, but support Web server data cache on Windows platform only. If data caching feature is enabled in Web server, but if it does not work due to improper configuration or unsupported platform (such as Unix, Linux), then the Application Server data cache is automatically enabled.

[c] .NET (IIS) Version supports only Microsoft Active Directory, while J2EE edition supports IBM LDAP, Netscape LDAP, Sun LDAP, and Microsoft Active Directory.