Introduction to Pathmaker

How Pathmaker Helps
Introduction to Pathmaker and Pathway
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Management Assistance The Pathmaker product not only makes developing a Pathway application simpler, it
also makes preparing, controlling, tracking, and managing an application
development effort easier. This is especially important for large application
development efforts involving many people.
The Pathmaker product features that provide assistance in these areas include:
The Pathmaker catalog, which provides a central location for most application
information.
PMADL, which is an alternative to the full screen interface and is especially
efficient for making mass changes to a Pathmaker application under development
and for quickly creating an application modeled after an existing Pathmaker
application.
The Pathmaker macro language, which is supplied with and is unique to the
Pathmaker product. The macro language simplifies the modification of the
Pathmaker skeletons used to generate source code and can be used to create and
register shared code macros for use by the development team.
Hard copy reports, which provide information about Pathmaker applications
under development.
The ability to register requesters written outside of the Pathmaker product for
access by Pathmaker requesters.
The ability to register services and servers written outside of the Pathmaker
product for access by Pathmaker requesters.
These Pathmaker product features are described in detail in the Pathmaker
Programming Guide.