Meeting Point Tutorial Demo
This demo employs an integrated help system to provide commentary on four production standard applications:
1. MP 1: Two Tier Fat Client: A traditional fat client application, where graphical presentation, business logic, and database access are combined
2. MP 2: Three Tier Fat Client: Conversion to stateless 4GL procedures within the Application Server. These procedures perform the database access, and are called from a separate client application
3. MP 3: Fat Server: Introduces some design techniques to help make the server application as fat and reusable as possible
4. MP 4: Web Client: Reuses the fat server application, this time driving it with a Web Server and ASP
The ASP Thin Client application also demonstrates the use of XML with the OpenROAD Application Server. The responses from the OpenROAD Application Server are returned as an XML document. This XML document is sent to the browser. The browser applies the style sheet to generate the user interface.