PowerBuilder

PowerDesigner supports the modeling of PowerBuilder programs including round-trip engineering.

PowerBuilder is an object oriented development tool. Most of its components are designed as objects with properties, methods and events that can be mapped to UML classes bearing specific stereotypes. PowerDesigner supports PowerBuilder objects stored in a .PBL file. Dynamic PowerBuilder Libraries (PBD) are not supported.

Note: If you have multiple versions of PowerBuilder installed on your machine PowerDesigner uses the most recent version by default. If you want to work on an earlier version of PowerBuilder, click the Change button to the right of the PowerBuilder version field in the generation or reverse engineering dialog.

PowerBuilder Objects
This section describes the mapping between PowerBuilder objects and PowerDesigner OOM objects.
Generating PowerBuilder Objects
You can generate PowerBuilder objects to an existing PowerBuilder application or as source files. Each class bearing a stereotype is generated as the appropriate PowerBuilder object. Classes without stereotypes are generated as user objects. Objects not fully supported by PowerDesigner have all their properties removed and only the header is generated.
Reverse Engineering PowerBuilder
This section explains how PowerBuilder objects are reverse engineered and how to define reverse engineering options for PowerBuilder.

Parent topic: Object Language Definition Reference