PowerServer Mobile

PowerServer Mobile extends the capabilities of 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.

PowerServer Mobile is composed of an application workspace, a developer tool, and a set of runtime server components: Appeon Workspace, PowerServer Toolkit, PowerServer (which includes the AEM), PowerServer Web Component, and PowerServer Help:

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

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

  • PowerServer 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.

  • PowerServer 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.

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

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

  • PowerServer 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.

PowerServer 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 PowerServer Mobile supports.