August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology 1 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E History

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology2 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E - History ICG, a company operating in the insurance market, has used Synon 2 Since 1991 to develope its own software solutions ICG customers asked for web application, but ICG wanted to mantain a single model of software development and maintenance

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology3 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E - History More important, ICG wanted to use a single 2E function for both Web and traditional version Our company, OpenTecnology has assisted ICG in generating Web version of 2E applications

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology 4 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E Solutions

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology5 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E - Solutions In the time, following customers demand,we have developed three way to obtain Web application from 2E Model Modifying generated Cobol code with automatic tool to obtain AS/400 running Web Application Modifying generated Cobol code with automatic tool to obtain a Linux running Web Application These two solutions are used by several insurance companies with thousands of users

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology6 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E - Solutions Finally, using the 2E model in AS400 repository to generate with an automatic tool a.Net Web application running in MS Systems We are now generating and testing the.Net version of the same application, without touching the 2E model and without writing by hand.Net code !

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology 7 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E How it works

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology8 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E – How it works We decided to start from 2E Model because it is nearer to the object paradigm than the Cobol generated code and we have more control on generated user interfaces We read the files containing the 2E model and automatically generate all the application components

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology9 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E – How it works We create SQL (Server) tables from Files and migrate data We obtain SQL (Server) views from Access Paths ASP.net HTML template pages are generated from screens.

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology10 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E – How it works We use the screen information in the 2E model to build a Web user interface which is richer than the simply HTML trasformation of a 5250 video. We use.Net component to create interface, p.e. using links, DataGrid instead of subfile, ComboBox with 2E conditions, Buttons for function keys... Integration with MS Office is available.

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology11 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E – How it works The action diagrams are red, transformed in an intermediate language and stored in a repository The Intermediate Language Repository is then used for.NET class generation, one class for each 2E function

August, (c) 2005 Opentecnology12 Synnet:Automatic.NET generator for Advantage/2E – How it works User Sources are trasformed in the intermediate language and stored in repository User Programs written in Cobol are trasformed with a.Net Cobol compiler CLP and system commands are natively converted in.Net Program Messages retrieved by MSGFs, queued and showed in HTML page, by means of alerts/message boxes, highlighted fonts,…