PocketBuilder is a smart-client application development tool for the Windows CE platform. It enables developers to build handheld applications in an object-centric, graphical, desktop environment and deploy them to a supported Pocket PC device or emulator.
The PocketBuilder installation program installs the PocketBuilder development environment on your desktop computer. It can also install required files on a Pocket PC or Smartphone device connected to your desktop and create installation files for Pocket PC and Smartphone emulators.
When you install PocketBuilder, you can also install Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere (ASA), a fully featured relational database and data management tool, to your desktop and to a Windows CE device or emulator. The ASA installation is restricted to development use only. Deployed systems require a separate ASA license or the ASA Runtime Edition (see “ASA Runtime Edition”).
The ASA installation includes MobiLink, a session-based synchronization system that allows two-way synchronization between a main database and many remote databases, and the Sybase Central™ database management tool.
ASA supports MobiLink synchronization with ASA databases running on the operating systems listed in Table 1-2, and on Novell NetWare Version 4.11, 4.2, or 5.x and several UNIX platforms, including Linux. ASA also supports MobiLink synchronization with Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Oracle, IBM DB2 UDB, and Microsoft SQL Server databases running on multiple platforms.
PocketBuilder also includes the Adaptive Server Anywhere for Windows CE royalty-free runtime edition (the “ASA Runtime Edition”). The ASA Runtime Edition is a restricted-functionality version of the standalone version of Adaptive Server Anywhere. For example, the ASA Runtime Edition does not support stored procedures and triggers, transaction logs, or synchronization.
The ASA Runtime Edition is installed in the Support\ASA_CE_Runtime directory in your PocketBuilder installation. For more information, including the list of Redistributable Components of the ASA Runtime Edition, see the Read Me First document in that directory.
In addition to the PocketBuilder installation CD, the PocketBuilder software package includes the Sybase Getting Started CD and the Sybase Technical Library CD. For more information about these CDs, see “Other sources of information”.
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