A PowerBuilder application can act as a client to an application server component. To access a method associated with a component on the server, the PowerBuilder client must connect to the server, instantiate the component, and invoke the component method.
Building and deploying an application server client
Use the Connection Object wizard to create a standard class user object that inherits from the Connection object. You can use this object in a script to establish a connection.
If you use the Template Application wizard to create the client application, you can create the Connection object in that wizard.
Use the Application Server Proxy wizard from the Project page of the New dialog to create a project for building proxy objects that you can use to communicate with a proxy server running on the application server. Then generate the proxy objects.
Create the windows, menus, and scripts required to implement the user interface.
Write the code required to create the application server component instance and call one or more component methods from the client.
Test and debug the client.
Deploy the application.
