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As John has already suggested, the tried-and-tested PowerHouse application
server engine will soon be available on MPE/iX for use as a Web application
server. The HP-UX and Windows NT versions have just been released
(literally!), with a press release to follow. Other platforms, including
MPE/iX, are on-track for delivery throughout June, July and August.

The newest version of PowerHouse 4GL, version 8.2, will build an HTML user
interface to a PowerHouse QUICK screen program simply by adding the HTML
keyword to the program's SCREEN statement. Other new keywords, such as
CHECKBOX and RADIOBUTTON, can be added to FIELD statements within the QUICK
screen source code to generate the appropriate control on the HTML page.
(The existing SELECTBOX option will generate a drop down picklist.)

For those of you who remember your first demonstration of PowerHouse, those
famous four lines of code to build a fully functional read/write screen
program now do the same for a fully functional web program:

        SCREEN x HTML
        FILE y
        GENERATE
        BUILD

The default HTML user interface is completely open, and so can be enhanced
with HTML and anything else that a web page can support -- images,
JavaScript, Java applets, ActiveX controls, XML, etc. -- which are totally
transparent to the PowerHouse Web server.

The architecture of PowerHouse Web enables you to use any combination of
supported platforms (MPE/iX, UNIX, OpenVMS or Windows NT) as web servers
and/or PowerHouse Web application servers -- and distribute incoming
requests over this heterogeneous network for load balancing and to eliminate
single points of failure.

More details, including downloadable white papers, are on the Cognos web
site at http://www.cognos.com/phweb.

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Best regards,
Conrad

Conrad Whittall
Marketing Manager, Application Development Tools
Cognos Incorporated, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9, Canada

Tel : + 1 (613) 738-1338 Ext.4804
Fax : + 1 (613) 228-3149

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For information on the Cognos PowerHouse family of high-productivity
development tools for mission-critical business applications visit our web
site at http://www.cognos.com/powerhouse

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Wilkinson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday 6 May 1999 9:37 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Web-based Front-End to HP3000 application


We're trying to develop a Web-based Front-end for one of our apps. The idea
is
to make it as simple as possible to present the data (from an IMAGE
Database) in
a web-page. I know a lot of you out there are trying to do the same thing
and
was wondering what tools/approaches are being used out there....

TIA for the feedback..

Mark W.
SPE.