In PowerBuilder, you work with one or more targets in a workspace. You can add as many targets to the workspace as you want, open and edit objects in multiple targets, and build and deploy multiple targets at once.
A PowerBuilder target can be one of several types:
Application target A client/server or multitier executable application. Most of this book is concerned with building application targets. See Chapter 5, “Working with Targets.”
.NET target A .NET target that you can use to deploy applications as .NET Windows Forms applications or to deploy nonvisual components as .NET assemblies or Web services. .NET targets are described in detail in a separate book, Deploying Applications and Components to .NET.
An EAServer or Application Server Component target A component that can be deployed to EAServer or another J2EE-compliant server. For more information, see Application Techniques.
All of these targets can use PowerBuilder’s built-in language, PowerScript®.
You choose targets in the New dialog box. Here are the Target types that are available in PowerBuilder:
For more information about creating a workspace and targets, see “Creating and opening workspaces” and “Creating a target”.
