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   Dear colleagues,

   This week we welcome another brave student to our PEM. Bas Toeter will
   present   the   results   of   his   masters  thesis  on  source  code
   transformation with XSLT.

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

        Student PEM - Transforming Powerbuilder Applications to Java

   Date:     9.08.01
   Time:    10:00
   Venue:   M.279
   Speaker: Bas Toeter
   Title:   Student PEM - Transforming Powerbuilder Applications to Java

   The   research  for  my  thesis  has  been  about  the  reuse  of  4GL
   PowerBuilder  client  server  applications  in  a  Three-Tier intranet
   environment based on Java technology. The challenges of this work were
   in  the difference between client/server and three-tier technology and
   in the difference between the PowerBuilder and Java languages.

   During  the  PEM  I  explain some of the intricate differences between
   PowerBuilder  and  Java and will shed light on how I used XML and XSLT
   to  transform  the  PowerBuilder  object  structure  to  a Java object
   structure.
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   meeting  addresses  a subject in the area of programming environments,
   program  generation, algebraic specification, term rewriting, parsing,
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   rooms at CWI/WINS. Exceptionally, dates or times may change.

   The    program    of    the    meetings    is    available   on   WWW:
   http://www.cwi.nl/~pem
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