PowerBuilder® 9: Internet and Distributed Application Development

Objectives

Whether you have succumbed to the dizzying marketing blitz or are sold on the technical and business merits of distributed development, let's assume that a decision has been made to migrate an existing application to an n-tier or Web architecture. As with any technology, it's difficult to know enough to make the right decisions on a project unless you've already successfully completed one or more. Of course, that implies that the first project completed might not have gone smoothly or ended with optimal results. The “law of first projects,” which says that the first time you use a technology you will create something that you'll want to re-create later, is as immutable as gravity itself. Fortunately, many people have cut the trail ...