Appeon Mobile

Appeon Mobile extends the capabilities of SAP PowerBuilder so that a PowerBuilder application can be deployed and run on the mobile device. The deployment process produces a true native mobile application with a J2EE-based or .NET-based back-end and an mobile-style UI front-end.

Appeon Mobile is composed of an application workspace, a developer tool, and a set of runtime server components: Appeon Workspace, Appeon Developer, Appeon Server (which includes the Appeon Enterprise Manager), Appeon Server Web Component, and Appeon Help:

  • Appeon Workspace. A native mobile application installed on the mobile device to simplify distributing, downloading, and running the Appeon mobile applications.

  • Appeon Developer. An extension to PowerBuilder that enables the mobile application generation, maintenance, and upgrades within the PowerBuilder IDE.

  • Appeon Server for J2EE Server. Composed of J2EE and PowerBuilder server components that provide runtime services for the deployed application such as data connectivity, complete DataWindows support, transaction management, printing, and security.

  • Appeon Server for .NET. Composed of Microsoft .NET components that provide runtime services for the deployed application such as data connectivity, complete DataWindows support, transaction management, printing, and security.

    Appeon Server also includes Appeon Enterprise Manager (AEM), which is essentially the user interface for Appeon Server. This UI is implemented as a JSP Web application enabling the system administrator to manage the deployed applications and Appeon Server over the Internet, an intranet or an extranet.

  • Appeon Server Web Component. A series of C++ and JavaScript libraries generating mobile-style UI.

  • Appeon Help. Provides easy access to all user documents. It saves time and conveniently places the help information, such as, the Appeon supported features, at your fingertips.

Appeon Mobile provides several additional tools (included in the installation package) to aid you in deploying existing PowerBuilder applications to the mobile device:

  • Appeon Workarounds & API PBL. Provides you APIs that can help work around the unsupported features and call the mobile device native features. Refer to Appeon Workarounds PBL Reference in Workarounds & APIs Guide for the functions provided in Appeon Workarounds PBL.

  • Appeon Demo Applications. Including Sales App Demo, Code Examples Demo, ACF Demo, SAPTechEd2012 Demo, and Order Demo (iPhone only) that can familiarize yourself with the features that Appeon Mobile supports.