Jeremy Scheffel

Professional Services staff and customers often approach me in the office and at trade shows seeking advice about interesting situations that need creative tools and solutions. One particular situation that comes to mind involves a very successful niche outfit recently absorbed by a larger organization in the same market. Professional Services was hired to manage the integration of this organization's existing applications with new development. What made this site particularly interesting (but not astonishing) was the mixture of PowerBuilder and Java, combined with the need to guarantee security, improve serviceability, and scale to 10 times the increase in usage in anticipation of expansion. Part of this site's situation should sound familiar to many of you, since a variation of this story has been told to me by hundreds of customers during my four years with Syba... (more)

Java in the PowerBuilder World

Professional Services staff and customers often approach me in the office and at trade shows seeking advice about interesting situations that need creative tools and solutions. One particular situation that comes to mind involves a very successful niche outfit recently absorbed by a larger organization in the same market. Professional Services was hired to manage the integration of this organization's existing applications with new development. What made this site particularly interesting (but not astonishing) was the mixture of PowerBuilder and Java, combined with the need to g... (more)