Why attend the 9th CA 2E and CA Plex Worldwide Developer Conference? In depth training will be available for CA 2E and CA Plex, followed by customer-led sessions on the products.  Don’t miss the sessions on “Developing Modern Web Applications using CA WebClient,” “The Evolution of Application Development – Axon Ivy,” “MatchPoint & DevOps,” and

Here are Solutions to Three Common iSeries Build Issues with CA Plex RPG Programs Build errors are just displayed with status = FAILED in CA PLEX’s Gen and Build window.  Therefore, it is necessary to check the Spooled files to get the details on the exact nature of the errors and determine how to correct

Occasionally you will need to perform a one way hash for passwords. This post shows how to do it using the MD5 algorithm in CA Plex with some java source code. For background on this, check out this link. First, create a source code object that looks like this: Here is the code to cut

In this post, I want to outline two concepts that may help you to create a better service architecture for CA Plex WCF services. First, we should make sure the interfaces are decoupled from the business logic in order to make sure that a change to business functions will not affect the interface used by

We just finished the 2E/Plex conference yesterday. I found it to be an outstanding event.  For those of you that could not attend I will be sharing some of the ideas that I taught in the Advanced 2E Workshop in future posts.  I also want to share some of my impressions of the conference. I

Please check out the CA Plex/2E Global User Community Webcast on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 10am EDT. Topic: CA Plex Release 7.0 has new features to further meet the user community’s requirements for simplifying modernizing applications, simplifying development workflows and integrating web services into their application deployments. Rob Layzell, the CA Plex architect will

Introduction Developers that have started using CM WebClient 1.8 Mobile’s touch optimized templates usually find that creating a mobile web app deployment is straightforward. But while deployment as a web app is acceptable for some, other developers creating commercial and specialized applications often benefit from native deployment. For example, you may need to use the

Learn more about the technology behind CM WebClient for CA Plex by reading this white paper published by Sencha – A Development Manager’s Quick Guide to HTML5. It describes the basics of HTML5 and lets you know why you should care. WebClient Mobile uses Sencha as the underlying presentation framework – allowing the CA Plex

Movie on how to turn on the iOS device JavaScript console and enable Firebug debugging Mobile Device Debugging for WebClient CA Plex Apps View more videos from CM First Technologies

WebClient for CA Plex shields you from much of the need to delve into the internals of HTML5 and JavaScript on the iPhone/iPad platform. However, the fact is that sometime you have to debug the HTML and CSS directly on the device. This is a guide on how to do it. There are two options