Pathmaker Programming Guide

Before You Begin
Pathmaker Application Development Overview
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Pathmaker Application
Types
A Pathmaker application can be composed of both DB requesters accessing standard
services and TRNS requesters working with custom services all connected by MENU
requesters. Although production applications are often like this scenario, this manual
discusses DB requester applications and custom applications as separate entities to
make learning how to use the product easier. This approach is not intended to
discourage you from combining DB requester applications and custom applications in
your environment.
For a custom application, the Pathmaker product can be used to generate all of the
requester code and some of the server code, including code used in IPC message
handling. For DB requester applications, the Pathmaker product can generate all of
the requester code and supply all of the server code. (For some applications,
additional requester code is created by the application developer in a special file that is
incorporated into the requester source code during requester generation.)
This section first explains how to create a custom application and then explains how to
create a DB requester application.