Getting Started-JetNet

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Introducing Panther

• About Panther
• Solutions and Application Scalability
• Simple Applications Use a Two-Tier Solution
• Enterprise-wide Applications Use a Three-Tier Solution
• Web Applications
• Product Components
• Visual Object Development
• Editor
• Screen Wizard Development
• Repository
• Menu Bar Editor
• Styles Editor
• JIF Editor
• Debugger
• Development Tools
• Source Control Support
• Programming Interfaces
• Built-in SQL Database
• Database Connectivity
• Behind the Screens
• Transaction Manager
• Middleware Support
• JetNet
• Oracle Tuxedo
• COM/MTS
• IBM WebSphere

Introducing the Tutorial

• About this Tutorial
• Accessing Lessons in the Tutorial
• About Each Module
• Module 1—Preparing the Server and the Client
• Module 2—Creating and Testing Screens
• Module 3—Connecting the Screens
• Module 4—Extending the Application
• Hints for Completing the Tutorial
• Before You Start
• For More Information...

Module 1—Preparing the Server and the Client

1. Setting Up the Server

• UNIX Application Server
• Create an application directory
• Edit the environment setup file
• Get new application components
• Get tutorial components
• Define the server environment
• Link to the server executables
• Create a middleware configuration file
• Name the application
• Get the machine's name and configuration file
• Get the machine's port number
• Provide the configuration file's location
• Boot the application
• Connect to the application
• If you take a break
• To resume the tutorial
• To continue the tutorial
• Windows Application Server
• Create an application directory
• Get new application components
• Get tutorial components
• Define the server environment
• Copy the server executables
• Start the JetNet manager
• Create a middleware configuration file
• Name the application
• Get the machine's name and configuration file
• Get the machine's port number
• Provide the configuration file's location
• Boot the application
• Connect to the application
• If you take a break
• To resume the tutorial
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

2. Configuring the Servers

• Add servers to the application
• Configure the standard server
• Define server properties
• Configure the file access server
• Activate servers
• If you take a break
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

3. Setting Up the Client

• UNIX Client
• Apply environment settings
• Connect to the middleware
• Open a library and access library members
• Save members to appropriate libraries
• If you take a break
• To continue the tutorial
• Windows Client
• Edit initialization files
• Connect to the middleware
• Open a library and access library members
• Save members to appropriate libraries
• If you take a break
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

4. Defining a Test Service

• Invoke the JIF editor
• Define a service by connecting to the middleware
• Are you connected?
• For the next lesson
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

5. Setting Up the Web Application Server

• Before starting this lesson
• Start the Web Setup Manager
• Enter the program locations
• Check the settings for your Web Application Server
• General environment settings
• 3-Tier Configuration
• Specify database settings and workstation jserver
• Add JPL routines to the client library
• Change permissions of shared files (UNIX only)
• Test the connection
• Stop and restart server after making any changes
• Shut down the server
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

Module 2—Creating and Testing Screens

6. Creating a Repository

• Connect to the middleware
• Create a repository
• Connect to the database
• Import database tables
• View repository contents
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

7. Using the Screen Wizard

• Open the repository
• Create screens with the screen wizard
• Specify the contents of the master section
• Define the detail columns
• Specify application architecture
• Determine service operations
• Customize the output screen
• Save the screens
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

8. Defining Services

• Invoke the JIF Editor
• Define a service
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

9. Testing the Screens

• Access test mode
• View data
• Edit the data
• Save the changes
• Add a new record
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

10. Setting Properties to Query the Database

• Using the Properties window
• Change properties locally
• Edit the service component
• View specific records
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

Module 3—Connecting the Screens

11. Enhancing the Screen

• Access table view properties
• Update the JIF
• Resize the screen
• Move widgets
• Open a repository entry
• Copy widgets
• Name the widgets
• Define the query fields
• Synchronize the service component
• Query the database
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

12. Inheriting from the Repository

• Define user input
• Define what the user sees
• Propagate changes to screens and service components
• Edit inherited property values
• Create a push button widget
• Define push button behavior
• Create a buttons repository entry
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

13. Writing and Executing JPL

• Write a procedure to access a distributor's orders
• Write a procedure to receive data
• Generate a unique ID number
• Insert the ID in the Database
• Invoke the hook function on the server
• Write a hook function for the client event
• Invoke the hook function for the client event
• Add a new database record
• View orders
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

14. Customizing Screen Behavior

• Add double-click functionality
• Write a screen entry function that executes only on screen exposure
• Test the JPL
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

Module 4—Extending the Application

15. Implementing Selection Screens

• Join multiple tables
• Add details from another table
• Generate selection screens
• Save the wizard output
• Define link and validation services
• Test the selection screen
• Validate the data
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

16. Calculating Data from Database Values

• Add a column to the grid widget
• Define a currency format
• Define a math expression (for server processing)
• Add the widget to a table view
• Calculate results on the server
• Calculate results on the client
• Update totals on transaction manager events
• Delete a detail record
• Validate client data
• Clearing data in a virtual field
• Update a detail record
• Connect two screens
• What did you do?
• What did you learn?

17. The Finale

A. Setting Up the Tutorial

B. Troubleshooting

• Error Files
• Setup and Connection Problems
• Starting the application or servers
• Booting the application
• Activating a server
• Setting up the Web application server
• Starting the client
• Starting a UNIX client
• Connecting the client
• Connecting to the server remotely
• Connecting to the server locally
• Accessing remote libraries

Index