Pathmaker Programming Guide

Service and Server Types
Creating Services and Servers
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Custom Services and
Servers
Custom Pathmaker services, packaged into custom servers, perform database access,
data manipulation, editing, and calculations for production applications. The
Pathmaker product provides a framework for each custom service. Application
developers must supply the COBOL85 or C code that does the work. For custom
services written in COBOL85 that access data in NonStop SQL tables, the Pathmaker
product can be used to generate some SQL database access statements for a custom
service.
Directions for creating custom services and servers are found later in this section.
Server Type Summary The following table summarizes the types of Pathmaker servers:
Server Type Description
Standard Object code is provided by the Pathmaker product. No
source code is provided. Standard servers are used
with DB requesters only.
Registered You provide object code. The Pathmaker product does
not generate any code (either source or object) for
registered servers. Registered servers can be used by
TRNS requesters.
Custom You provide a portion of the source code. The
Pathmaker product generates the object code and
some of the source code. Custom servers are used by
TRNS requesters.