Re: Forms 4.5 and PowerBuilder Co-existing?

Beth,

You would have few problems integrating apps which were built in 'Open' tools (VB, Delphi, PB etc..). These have standard ways to run other programs and/or call Windows DLLs. As far as I know Forms was not constructed to be a Windows application first...just try calling a dll in Forms/Developer2000 somthing so simple has been made into a nightmare by Oracles approach. Forms/Dev2000 primary focus is to provide quick access to Oracle (oracle only), be cross platform and use a repository based / CASE architecture. My point is integrating this type of tool with others is difficult since it has a completly differnt focus and does not provide strong windows support...good luck.

Dave H.

>"Beth J. Katcher" <katcher_at_a1.tch.harvard.edu> wrote:
>I was wondering if any of you have experience in combining applications developed in
>Oracle's Forms 4.5 and PowerBuilder. We are an Oracle shop moving slowly towards
>client/server. We have a few PowerBuilder applications out there, and a lot of
>VT-based SQL*Forms 3.0 applications. The question is where to go next. The
>simplest way to migrate the VT apps to Client/Server is to move to Forms 4.5. So
>once we've got all our apps running on the PC users will start demanding better
>integration. Specifically, once a patient is selected in one application, users
>should be able to call any number of other applications to see different parts of
>the patient record, passing the patient id from one app to the next so it is
>transparent to the user.
>
>Does anyone have experience in integrating applications written in the two different
>tools? Given the numbers of apps in Forms vs. PB, it might make sense to just use
>Forms, but the PB folks don't want to do that. And we have too many forms in 3.0 to
>re-write them all in PB.
>
>TIA,
>Beth
>
Received on Fri Nov 17 1995 - 00:00:00 CET