Editions

Appeon PowerServer 2017 R3 contains the following editions. For more details, refer to the section called “Editions and components” in Installation Guide for PowerServer (PB Edition) and PowerServer (PB Edition) VS. Other PowerServer Editions section in the PowerBuilder release bulletin.

Table 1. Appeon edition

OS

Editions

Application Servers

Components
Windows

PowerBuilder Universal Edition[a]

(including Developer Edition, Standalone Production Edition, & Clustered Production Edition for PowerServer)

Microsoft .NET Framework\IIS
  • PowerServer Toolkit[b]

  • PowerServer (PB Edition)[c]

  • Appeon Workspace

  • PowerServer (PB Edition) Help

Enterprise Edition

Workgroup Edition

Developer Edition

Microsoft .NET Framework\IIS

  • PowerServer (Mobile & Web)

  • Appeon Workspace

  • PowerServer Help

JBoss

Oracle WebLogic

IBM WebSphere

TmaxSoft JEUS

Unix (IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, HP Unix), Linux (RedHat Linux)

Enterprise Edition

Workgroup Edition

JBoss

  • PowerServer (Mobile & Web)

  • Appeon Workspace

Oracle WebLogic

IBM WebSphere

TmaxSoft JEUS

[a] PowerBuilder Universal Edition contains installations of two products: PowerBuilder and PowerServer (PB Edition).

[b] PowerServer Toolkit is only available in the PowerBuilder Universal Edition. PowerServer Toolkit 2017 R3 can deploy mobile apps and Web apps to PowerServer server 2017 R3, and can deploy mobile apps to 2017 R2 and 2017.

[c] PB Edition is only available in the PowerBuilder Universal Edition.


Because of differences between different application servers (.NET Framework\IIS, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, or JEUS) and different platforms (Windows and Linux\Unix), some features are only available in certain circumstance. Refer to the following table for details.

Table 2. Feature difference

Feature

.NET (IIS)

JBoss\WebLogic\WebSphere\JEUS

Windows

Windows\Linux\Unix

Web Demos

-

Yes

EJB Components

-

Yes

Com/Com+/.NET Components

Yes

-

DataWindow Data Caching[a]

Yes

Yes

LDAP Security

Yes[b]

Yes

[a] All types of PowerServer support Application Server data cache and client-side data cache, but support Web server data cache on Windows platform only. If data caching feature is enabled in Web server, but if it does not work due to improper configuration or unsupported platform (such as Unix, Linux), then the Application Server data cache is automatically enabled.

[b] .NET (IIS) Version supports only Microsoft Active Directory, while J2EE edition supports IBM LDAP, Netscape LDAP, Sun LDAP, and Microsoft Active Directory.