Synon/CA 2E

July 27, 2017

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

August 21, 2015

Web Services are an essential part of modernizing many legacy systems. CA 2E developers are able to build their own Web Services inside the CA 2E model. Recently, I worked with a customer on exposing some important parts of their CA 2E application through Web Services. There are several lessons we learned while implementing Web

February 11, 2015

The most significant feature in CA 2E r8.7 is the ability to convert a DDS database file to SQL without having to recompile the functions associated with the file. This capability makes moving to a modern SQL database rather easy. In the past, communication between Java and web developers was hampered because CA 2E generated

December 11, 2013

In part one of this series, we looked at calling an IBMi API with an RPG user program.  It would be nice to call the same API directly from 2E but in this case, it does not work. That is because the API is not a program we can call directly.  You can see this

December 3, 2013

IBMi APIs provide many tools that a 2E programmer might need. There are also different ways a programmer can interface with the APIs. The first method is to write a native RPG program as a user program and include that program within the 2E model. Once it is written any programmer can call the user

November 15, 2013

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

February 26, 2013

Synon 2E has a feature that has been around since version 8.5 that can become very handy in reducing work and implementing standards.  This feature can become a real time saver for your company.  I personally like this feature because there are standard ways I like to create my functions.  Now, I can have most