International Business Machines Corporation

Sybase, Inc.

Thomas Jeffrey Calow

Niklas Heidloff

A core idea of present invention is not only to have one fixed link/reference to one specific database, but to use a script/formula (e.g. a Notes @formula/expression) that resolves to a link to a specific database at runtime. This allows pointing to different NSFs in the development environment vs. production environment vs. any other environment. This reference (e.g., the @formula/expression) is written in a new user interface (UI) of the Lotus Notes Composite Application Editor (CAE) that is part of the current UI to define component property preferences. This UI would generate the XML below so that users don't have to do this manually.

Accomodating different resolutions of references to components in composite applications

A Database Development System is described that provides methodologies for creating an HTML or Web database control object (the &ldquo;HTML DataWindow&rdquo;) for use in a Client/Server Database System The HTML DataWindow serves as a thin-client DataWindow implementation for Web applications that provides most of the data manipulation, presentation, and scripting capabilities of the PowerBuilder DataWindow, without requiring any runtime DLLs (e.g., PowerBuilder runtime dynamic link libraries) on the client. DataWindow validation rules, formatting, and edit styles are automatically converted by the system into equivalent HTML and JavaScript, without coding by the user. HTML is generated that is suitable for the target browser. A plurality of functions and events are implemented by the generation of JavaScript which is downloaded to the client. In this manner, the Web or HTML DataWindow Design-Time Dontrol supports generation of a runtime DataWindow object in HTML.

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Westford, MA, United States of America

Thomas Jeffrey Calow