This tutorial is a series of five exercises in which you convert and deploy the Appeon tutorial PowerBuilder application to the Web. By following the tutorial, you will get hands-on experience in Web migration using PowerServer.
The Appeon tutorial PowerBuilder application is a small program involving database interaction. The application is used in the tutorial as the target PowerBuilder application to be worked on for a complete Web migration.
This tutorial is a simplified and practical example of the PowerServer Web migration methodology laid out in Migration Process. It can serve as a starting point for any developer who wants to convert their existing PowerBuilder applications. After the successful migration of the tutorial application, you can try to convert more complex, real PowerBuilder applications into a more complicated network environment.
How you will proceed:
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Lesson 1 |
Load the Appeon tutorial application into PowerBuilder. |
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Lesson 2 |
Configure PowerServer Toolkit. |
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Lesson 3 |
Analyze the tutorial application for unsupported features. |
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Lesson 4 |
Deploy the tutorial application to the Web. |
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Lesson 5 |
Run the Web application. |
What you will learn:
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Lesson 1 |
How to create a PowerBuilder workspace, load application PBL files, set up an ODBC data source, and run the application from the PowerBuilder IDE. |
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Lesson 2 |
Add the application profile, the PowerServer profile, the Web server profile, the deployment profile, the data source profile, and the transaction object mapping in the PowerServer Toolkit Configuration Wizard. |
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Lesson 3 |
Perform unsupported feature analysis, perform a Full build, and optimize the tutorial application. |
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Lesson 4 |
Deploy the tutorial application to the Web using the PowerServer Application Deployment Wizard. |
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Lesson 5 |
Run the deployed Web application in the Web browser. |
How long it will take:
You can complete the entire tutorial in ninety minutes. Each lesson has also been designed so that you can stop after any lesson and continue at another time.
