User's Guide

PowerDynamo

Subject

This manual describes PowerDynamo, a suite of tools for building and managing database-hosted Web sites and for enabling intranets for a mobile workforce.

Audience

This manual is for users who want to build Web sites with dynamic content. For reference type information, see the PowerDynamo Reference Manual.

Before you begin

This manual assumes that you are moderately familiar with HTML, ECMAScript (the standardized version of JavaScript), and the operations of Web browsers and servers.

Related documents

Core EAServer documentation The core EAServer documents are available in HTML format in your EAServer software installation, and in DynaText and PDF format on the EAServer 4.0 Technical Library CD.

The EAServer Installation Guide for your platform explains how to install the EAServer software.

What's New in EAServer 4.0 summarizes new functionality in this version.

The EAServer Feature Guide explains application server concepts and architecture, such as components, transactions, and Web applications. This book also explains how to use the optional EAServer products such as:

Application Integrator for CICS, which allows EAServer components to execute CICS programs on a mainframe.
Application Integrator for Stored Procedures, which allow you to quickly integrate database stored procedures into component-based applications.
Adaptive Server® Anywhere, a full featured, easy to use, transactional database management system.
PowerDynamo™, which you can use for PowerBuilder® Web DataWindow® support.

The EAServer Programmer's Guide explains how to:

Create, deploy, and configure components and component-based applications
Create, deploy, and configure Web applications, Java servlets, and Java Server Pages
Use the industry-standard CORBA and Java APIs supported by EAServer

The EAServer System Administration Guide explains how to:

Start the preconfigured Jaguar server and manage it with the Jaguar Manager plug-in for Sybase Central
Create, configure, and start new application servers
Define connection caches
Create clusters of application servers to host load-balanced and highly available components and Web applications
Monitor servers and application components
Automate administration and monitoring tasks with command-line tools or the Repository API
Create embedded EAServer installations

EAServer Security Administration and Programming Guide explains how to:

Understand the EAServer security architecture
Configure role-based security for components and Web applications
Configure SSL certificate-based security for client connections using the Security Manager plug-in for Sybase Central
Implement custom security services for authentication, authorization, and role membership evaluation
Implement secure HTTP and IIOP client applications
Deploy client applications that connect through Internet proxies and firewalls

The EAServer Cookbook contains tutorials and explains how to use the sample applications included with your EAServer software.

The EAServer API Reference Manual contains reference pages for proprietary EAServer Java classes, ActiveX interfaces, and C routines. This document is available only online.

PowerDynamo documents PowerDynamo documents are available in HTML format in your EAServer software installation, and in DynaText and PDF format on the EAServer 4.0 Technical Library CD.

Application Integrator documents Application Integrator documents are available in HTML format in your EAServer software installation, and in DynaText and PDF format on the EAServer 4.0 Technical Library CD.

Adaptive Server Anywhere documents EAServer includes a limited-license version of Adaptive Server Anywhere 7.0. PowerDynamo requires Adaptive Server Anywhere, as do many of the samples included with your EAServer software. Adaptive Server Anywhere documents are available in DynaText and PDF format on the EAServer 4.0 Technical Library CD.

jConnect for JDBC documents EAServer includes the jConnect for JDBC driver to allow JDBC access to Sybase database servers and gateways. The jConnect for JDBC Programmer's Guide is available in DynaText and PDF format on the EAServer 4.0 Technical Library CD.