Working with PowerBuilder

PowerDesigner supports the modeling of PowerBuilder programs including round-trip engineering.

PowerBuilder is an object oriented development tool. Most of its components are designed as objects with properties, methods and events that can be mapped to UML classes as defined in an OOM.

PowerDesigner supports PowerBuilder objects stored in a .PBL file. Dynamic PowerBuilder Libraries (PBD) are not supported. You can map classes to PowerBuilder objects using specific stereotypes. Some PowerBuilder objects support full-featured mapping with an OOM class, some do not.

• Full-featured Mapping
  This section describes the mapping between PowerBuilder and OOM objects for fully supported PowerBuilder objects.
• Minimal Mapping
  The following PowerBuilder objects do not support full-featured mapping with PowerDesigner classes:
• Selecting a PowerBuilder Version
  If you have different versions of PowerBuilder installed on your machine PowerDesigner uses by default the most recent version.
• Generating for PowerBuilder
  This section explains how PowerDesigner objects are generated and how to define the PowerBuilder version you are currently using and generation options for PowerBuilder.
• Reverse Engineering PowerBuilder
  This section explains how PowerBuilder objects are reverse engineered and how to define reverse engineering options for PowerBuilder.