Appeon® PowerServer® 2020
FOR WINDOWS & UNIX & LINUX
LAST REVISED: January 14, 2021
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Table of Contents
- Web RAD with PowerBuilder and PowerServer
- Migration Process
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- Introduction
- Installing required softwares
- Understanding the general limitations of the PowerServer solution
- Defining migration objective
- Upgrading the original application
- Preparing the target application
- Pre-configuring for the Web applications
- Modifying unsupported features
- Enhancing the application with Web or PowerServer features
- Trial deployments and debugging
- Fine-tuning the runtime performance
- Go-live deployment
- Go live
- Migration FAQ
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- How do I rapidly build a new Web application with PowerServer?
- Does PowerServer support every PowerBuilder feature?
- Do PowerServer-deployed Web applications support external resources?
- Why classify my application into types?
- What are the different application types?
- What are the recommendations for converting the different application types?
- What are the basic requirements for rewriting complex applications?
- When would I need to modularize my application?
- What are the benefits of modularizing my application?
- What are the basic principles for modularizing an application?
- Can you give an example of the modularization process?
- Enhancing an application with Web or PowerServer features
- Processing PFC Applications
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- Auto-Sensing Environment
- Suggested Modifications to PFC
- Unsupported user objects
- Unsupported standard class objects
- Unsupported object properties
- Unsupported object functions
- Unsupported object events
- Unsupported system functions
- Unsupported Shared variables
- Unsupported Function not found
- Unsupported calls
- Differently behaved features
- Migration Tutorial
