Introduction to Pathmaker

A Suggested Life Cycle for a Pathmaker Application
Using Pathmaker—An Overview
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Setup This phase focuses on preparing the Pathmaker environment to implement the design.
Tasks during this phase include:
Installing Pathmaker software
Installing related products (TMF, Enform, and so on, if necessary)
Assigning logons and subvolumes
Preparing DDL schema
Setting up the test database. (This can occur later for Enscribe files only.)
Adding Pathmaker projects
Customizing Pathmaker projects
Compiling DDL schema to update DDL dictionary files
Registering NonStop SQL tables
Creating shared code (optional)
Development The development phase is the portion of the life cycle when the application design is
implemented into requesters, services, and servers. The Pathmaker product's primary
job is to simplify application development; however, to properly implement a
production application, application design and planning must be done first. With the
design specification and project plan as guides, application developers use the
Pathmaker product to:
Describe services and servers (for custom applications)
Generate NonStop SQL data manipulation statements to include in service code
(for custom applications that access NonStop SQL data)
Write service code (for custom applications)
Describe requesters and their screens
Modify screens (where necessary)
Generate and compile requester source code
Package services into servers (for custom applications)
Generate and compile server code (for custom applications)