The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - October 2004 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)
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Table
of Contents:
1)
SUG-TX September 28th Meeting Highlights
2)
Upcoming October 26th SUG-TX Meeting – “The
Power of PowerDesigner 10”
3)
SUG-TX November 23rd Meeting
4)
Membership Portal Announcement
5)
Houston
User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting
6)
Sybase Events
7)
1) SUG-TX
September 28th Meeting Highlights
The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas
held their meeting on Tuesday, September 28th with a round table discussion
on "PowerBuilder to Web Strategies" and other innovative uses of
PowerBuilder.
Don Clayton, President of SUG-TX,
welcomed everyone to the meeting. The group went around the room and
introduced themselves and held a Q&A session.
Don started the discussions by
reviewing the various approaches to moving PowerBuilder to the web. Don's
slides are available as a PowerPoint
show. Covered approaches included
the "screen scraping" in Appeon® for
PowerBuilder®, Application Partitioning (the
process of moving PowerBuilder business logic to business objects for subsequent
deployment to the middle tier) and PowerBuilder NVOs as SOAP-based Web Services.
The Appeon® for PowerBuilder® discussion proved to be especially lively as the
group debated the pros and cons of the approach and when and where
Appeon is a good fit. There may have even been some converts to the Appeon
fan
club. The Web Services 101 discussion reviewed the
advantages to the SOAP Protocol (HTTP, XML, etc.) in a distributed environment
and the composition of the SOAP Message. Don also touched on the security
considerations and how each web service participant is involved (provider, UDDI,
client). Using PowerBuilder to both build and consume web
services is where things got interesting... consider the sheer power and
opportunities available to the average PowerBuilder
developer.
Don then turned the discussion over
to
Rick George of Parkelle, Inc. closed
out the discussions with a review of his experiences using the
EAF framework to move
PowerBuilder to the web. Rick reviewed the architecture (browser, web
server, JSP engine, PB components, and database) of the typical web application,
the challenges of moving to the web and some advantages of using EAF. He
also highlighted some of the more interesting administrative and development
features of EAF such as the Variable Manager, Email Manager, PDF & Excel
Reporting, Enhanced Error Messaging, Global Logging and the Log Viewer.
2) Upcoming
October 26th SUG-TX Meeting – “The
Power of PowerDesigner 10”
The Sybase Users' Group of Texas
will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, October 26th. The
meetings are held at HAL-PC,
October’s topic will be “The Power
of PowerDesigner 10” by Matt Creason. During the last two years,
Sybase PowerDesigner has become the
market-leading tool for graphical database
development, eclipsing CA's ERWin product in new license sales.
PowerDesigner/QDesigner (as co-branded by Quest Software) now leads Gartner Group's Magic Quadrant
for Database Design Tools for 2004 as the industry leader in both strategic
vision and ability to execute this vision. With Quest Software's support,
PowerDesigner/QDesigner now provides unrivaled support for all the various
physical database options in Oracle databases at design time.
Matt's talk
will be of interest to DBAs, Application Developers, and System Architects
alike. With business process modeling, conceptual entity-relationship
modeling, full round-trip modeling support for over 50 different DBMS, as well
as UML-based object-oriented modeling for languages like Java, C++, C#, VB.Net,
XML, and PowerBuilder, PowerDesigner is now perhaps the broadest and most
powerful product in its class.
General Topics in Matt's talk will
include: What is "Model-Driven
Architecture?”, how PowerDesigner
addresses different PowerDesigner audiences with different features, the
Gartner magic
quadrant, PowerDesigner's unmatched data modeling
capabilities, Business Process
Models, Free
Models, the new XML
model in 10, and PowerDesigner 11's release defining
features.
For
the DBAs, Matt will demonstrate the many databases that
are now supported, discuss the Quest Software alliance and the benefits accruing
to Oracle shops, VBA/Java
automation, forward and reverse-engineering of schemas, and the automatic
generation of alter statements. Matt will also show the nearly flawless
conversion of ERWin models.
For Application Developers and System
Architects, Matt will demonstrate PowerDesigner's
UML
support for various object oriented languages, PowerDesigner 10 seamless
integration with PowerBuilder 10, the round-trip engineering of .Net
solutions written in languages such as C# or VB.Net,
XML/Web services
modeling, and Java/Eclipse
integration.
Available now,
view the August 19, 2004 webcast
from DM Review magazine titled, "The Power of
Design: Data Modeling and Much More", featuring
About the
Speaker
Matt Creason is a Senior Systems Consultant with Sybase, a
PowerDesigner product specialist. He has been in the application
development and enterprise architecture disciplines for 11 years. During
this time, Matt has consulted and worked for Fortune 500 companies, Federal,
State, and Local governments on modeling, SDLC management, and application
development.
*
This will be a high-powered presentation similar to John
Strano's July presentation, so mark you calendar and be sure not to
miss it!
3) SUG-TX
November 23rd
Meeting
The Sybase Users' Group of Texas will hold November’s meeting on
Tuesday, November 23rd, when Bill Wing of Sybase, Inc. will present two
important topics. The first part of his presentation will discuss the
mobile solutions from iANywhere, the worldwide market leader in mobile and
embedded databases, mobile middleware and mobile and remote device management.
More than 15,000 customers and 1,000 partners rely on the company's
award-winning products, including SQL Anywhere® Studio and XcelleNet® frontline
solutions. In addition, its AvantGo® mobile Internet service has more than ten
million registered subscribers.
The second topic will be on the Sybase
Enterprise Portal (EP). Sybase EP is an open and scalable portal framework
that provides an intuitive, secure and personalized environment for end-users;
rapid development and deployment tools for developers; and an easy-to-use
console for administrators. Don’t miss these two exciting
presentations!
4)
Membership
Portal Announcement
The Sybase Users' Group of Texas
(SUG-TX) has opened the SUGTX Membership
Portal for general access. You can now
create or maintain your SUG-TX contact information online, update your
membership information, change your email address, subscribe or opt out of
the monthly newsletter mailings, let us know which products you use, and
make suggestions to the group.
Soon you will be able to access premium
content, downloads, tool and tricks and relevant technology information not
available on the public site. We will also be providing an online
application mechanism to simplify the SUGTX Membership Application
process.
To access the portal, use these simple instructions (see our
Privacy Policy
here):
In your favorite web browser, navigate to the SUGTX Membership
Portal (http://www.sugtx.org/portal/) and
click the "Register" button in
the login dialog.
* If you receive or used to receive the monthly
newsletter...
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least your email address. Use the Profile Search page
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5) Houston User
Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting
The Houston User Group for Sun
meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the
6) Sybase
Events
a) Webcast Series - ISUG
Techcast Series
Topic:
Solving Your Data Growth and Access
Problems
Date: Tuesday,
November 9th and Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
CDT
The monthly ISUG techcast series, featuring popular topics from TechWave, continues in November. Registration information is available at http://www.sybase.com/isugtechcasts.
If you missed previous techcasts,
you can view the recording of past sessions or download the presentations at www.sybase.com/isugpresentations.
7) Sybase
Training (Oct - Jan)
Contact: 972-687-6400
Register:
1 800-8-SYBASE
18 Oct 2004 5 days
Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE
25 Oct 2004 5 days Fast
Track to Replication Server Administration
01 Nov 2004 5 days Fast
Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise
08 Nov 2004 5 days Fast
Track: Developing Robust Apps Using PowerBuilder
9.0
15 Nov 2004 5 days
Performance and Tuning: ASE Query Optimizer
15 Nov 2004 1 day
Introduction to SQL 12.5
16 Nov 2004 4 days
Advanced T-SQL: Tips and Techniques
29 Nov 2004 5 days
System and Database Administration: ASE
06 Dec 2004 5 days Fast
Track to PowerBuilder 10
13 Dec 2004 5 days Fast
Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise
03 Jan 2005 5 days
Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE
10 Jan 2005 1
day Introduction to SQL 12.5
11 Jan 2005 4 days
Advanced T-SQL: Tips and Techniques
Please verify class availability
with Sybase registration or http://sed.sybase.com/Osiris/osiris_location_NAA1.htm#DL
Hilton Computer
Strategies
6001
Savoy, Suite 207
Contact: 713-782-6665
Register: www.hiltoncomputer.com
Pre-register 5 days
PB101: Basic Programming Using PowerBuilder
Pre-register 5 days
PB301: Advanced Programming Using PowerBuilder
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news & events to: secretary@sugtx.org
Do you have suggestions for our
group? Let us hear them. We have new web site features that include
member self-service functions and member feedback
capabilities.
Would you like to present your
Sybase solutions to the Sybase Users’ Group of Texas? The group is always
looking for compelling presentations for our monthly meetings. Let us hear
them!
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