| What are the principles involved in converting a FoxPro application to Business Objects? We’ll start at the beginning and build up a set of basic Business Object classes which attendees can put to use immediately after the session.This session will deal with the thorny issues of making an existing application work with new concepts and paradigms without a complete rewrite. We’ll cover a list of do’s and don’ts as well as illustrate the end result of a more maintainable and extensible application, using the business objects in a desktop app, a web page, and a web service. VFP9’s improved XMLAdapter and CursorAdapter classes will be used in some of the examples.Business Objects can be a very useful and productive architectural decision most often used for new development. However, many existing applications could become much more useful and flexible if they could be converted to a Business Object architecture. This session will show how to do that, and will also be useful for developers just wanting to learn concepts about Business Objects in general. Note the use of XMLAdapter and CursorAdapter in some of the examples – many examples usually shown are more theoretical than practical – we will show them being used in the business object layer.
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