Application
Deployment
For the first time, applications can be an integral part of your quest for continuous improvement. Through the constant, incremental change APPX makes possible, your systems will become more effective over time. And as new technologies become available, your applications can take advantage of them.
Application Design
With APPX, you will build better applications in less time than you ever imagined. You design your application by entering your specifications and APPX does the rest. APPX’s innovative Design by Specification approach to application design minimizes the need for procedural code. APPX lets you focus on defining the business rules for your application rather than the data processing rules.
APPX provides a structured framework for designing your application. This well-defined structure results in an application which is consistent in its design. With APPX you will be able to quickly design full-featured business applications which are maintainable!
The APPX Application Design Utility allows you to easily maintain more than one version of your applications. For example, you might have a production version, a test version, and a development version. And, you might have additional versions of your applications for each company or corporate entity within your organization.
RDBMS Interfaces
APPX provides integration with a wide variety of of database products, allowing rapid creation and use of data in the most advanced database technology. These database titles include Sybase, Oracle, Vision, CISAM, SQL-Server® as well as a variety of other database programs through APPX’s use of the ODBC integration tool.
APPX provides the ability to read, write, scratch, import, and export data to and from any number of dissimilar (existing and/or new) relational database systems, giving you the freedom to target specific tasks with specific solutions. Managed from the familar and easy to use APPX data dictionary tools, you will command the flexibility of dynamic creation and restructuring of files and tables across any configuration of database systems when any change is made to the APPX dictionary structure. Changes to the application are reflected across the whole database system as well.
It is not necessary to map the APPX data dictionary to match existing relational database tables because APPX can create any RDBMS table structure automatically.
All communication between systems is made transparent by defining a limited number of data management system (DMS) “Control Strings” in a special DMS group definition. This system allows data to exist on its native database system, allowing you to take full advantage of the widest variety of database technology available.
Supported Hardware Platforms
APPX is a true multi-platform environment. Applications developed on one platform can be deployed on any other platform without rewriting a single line of code! In other words, your business applications are 100% portable across all supported platforms.
Currently Supported Platforms
- HP 9000 series RISC processors running HPUX
- HP Itanium servers running HPUX
- IBM RS/6000 RISC processors running AIX
- Sun SparcStations running Solaris
- Intel processors running Linux (most popular Linux distributions)
- Intel processors running Windows®, Windows XP®, Windows Server 2003®, Windows 2000®, Windows NT®, or Windows 98®
ISAM Interfaces
APPX includes APPXIO, our own powerful indexed file access method. But, APPX can also interface with other popular indexed file access methods. APPX supports the following ISAM’s:
- C-ISAM by Informix (now owned by IBM)
- VISION by Accucorp
Interfaces for C-ISAM and VISION are not available on all platforms.
Client/
Server Model
APPX Connection Manager
Whether accessing applications and data locally or remotely, the APPX Connection Manager validates user ID and passwords and launches applications and data connections.
ODBC Driver for Windows
APPX also includes an ODBC driver for Windows that allows Windows applications to access APPX data whether stored locally or remotely.
APPX/NET
APPX supports distributed processing. Configure multiple servers for your data and your applications.
Web Interfaces
Use APPX as a backend for your web applications. Our interfaces for Windows and UNIX web servers allow you to easily add real-time data access to your web applications.
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