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Friday, May 1, 2015

STD Web Service Framework - Version 2015R1 Released!

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Web Service Framework - v2015.1.0.40 - Released!



     Software Tool & Die Inc are please to announce a new release of their Web Service STD Foundation Classes for IIs (STD FC IIs) - Version 2015.1.0.40 (2015R1). The updated v2.4 Web Service IIs framework is solely targeted to helping PowerBuilder Classic developers, to develop .Net based Web Services and deploy these to IIs. The IIs based framework takes advantage of RAD techniques, employs an MVC (Model, View, Controller) architecture for superior performance, flexibility and extendability!
   All the STD frameworks are free and can be downloaded from its STD Foundation Classes Source Forge project website.

    The Web Service framework - while greatly improving the PB & Appeon developer's productivity - also includes these types of features to help with RAD based projects:
  • Helps the PB developer to Implement "stateless" programming
  • Does DBMS transaction management automatically
  • Manages DataStores for you automatically
  • Manages DB updates for you automatically
  • Facilitates  MVC design & programming
  • Provides Encryption / Decryption services
  • Provides extended numerical services (ie: And / Or / Xor / Xand / etc features to PowerScript
  • Provides Result Set generation for any data
  • Provides HTML generation for any data
  • Allows SMTP eMail generation
  • Facilitates  Event, Debug and Application logging
  • and much more!

    The main updates to the STD Web Service FC's included in Version #2.4 - Service Pack#4 include: ....  
  • Renamed class "ns_dda_master" to "ns_sqlda_master" for naming standards.
  • Renamed class "ns_dsa_master" to "ns_sqlsa_master" for naming standards.
  • Renamed class "ns_transaction_master" to "ns_sqlca_master" for naming standards.
  • Renamed class "ns_transaction_ase_master" to "ns_sqlca_ase_master" for naming standards.
  • Renamed class "ns_transaction_db2_master" to "ns_sqlca_db2_master" for naming standards.
  • Renamed class "ns_transaction_informix_master" to "ns_sqlca_informix_master" for naming standards.
  • Renamed class "ns_transaction_oracle_master" to "ns_sqlca_oracle_master" for naming standards.
  • Renamed class "ns_transaction_sa_master" to "ns_sqlca_sa_master" for naming standards.
  • Renamed class "ns_transaction_sqlite_master" to "ns_sqlca_sqlite_master" for naming standards.
  • Renamed class "ns_transaction_ss_master" to "ns_sqlca_ss_master" for naming standards.
  • Added a new PBL () to house deprecated objects for each release of the Foundation Classes   =>  Located in the "Deprecated" folder of the Framework.
  • Revised default application () to use new SQLCA,SQLDA, and SQLSA base ancestor names.
  • Revised WriteLog's to format the Error Message clearer in "fn_check_db_status".
  • Created new "fn_xml_ansi_replace" function to replace XML escape code with its ANSI character equivalent.
  • Created new "fn_xml_symbolic_replace" function to replace ANSI character with its XML escape code equivalent.
  • Added new code to load new "logging" information settings from the INI file (nc_business_master)
  • Added code to remove "<" & ">" from INI and WorkSpace names (nc_iis_master)
  • Added code to log the Run command if Debug is ON (nc_powershell_master)
  • Renamed class "nc_active_directory" to "nc_active_directory_master" for naming standards.
  • Tested framework with ....
      - PowerBuilder 12.x, 12.5.x and 12.6
      - Appeon 2013R2 and Appeon 2015.
      - MS-Windows 7, 2008 & 2012.
      - .Net 2.0, .Net 3.5, .Net 4.0 and .Net 4.5
      - IIs 7.0, 7.5

   The STD Web Service and other PB frameworks are free and can be downloaded from the STD Foundation Classes SourceForge project website.

Regards   ... Chris

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