Advanced CA Gen development (3 days)

This course is targeted at experienced developers who want to know about how to use Gen more effectively and some of the more ‘advanced’ features of Gen.  The first part of the course explains techniques in each stage of a project lifecycle that can be used to influence the performance of the resulting application.  Other topics include how to develop batch or asynchronous processing, use of incremental subsetting and use of COM/ ActiveX, .NET and Java proxies. The course finished by exploring how to deploy the Java proxies as web services.

The course is based on Gen 7.6 and includes a number of practical exercises. 

The agenda is as follows:

Day 1

• Extended READs
• Advanced View Options

• Responsibility for Performance
• Performance in Data Modelling
• Performance in Database Design
• Performance in Transaction Design

Day 2

• Performance in Data Access and Read Properties
• Performance and CBD
• View Management
• Using Client / Server Templates

• CA Gen Support for Asynchronous Processing
• Batch v Online
• Checkpoint Restart
• Procedure Step Structure
• Testing Batch

Day 3

• Development Exercises
• Incremental Subsetting
• CA Gen Proxy Types
• Generating CA Gen Proxies
• Testing CA Gen Proxies
• Deploying CA Gen Proxies as Web Services

Who should attend: 

This course is aimed at developers who have in the region of 2 – 4 years project experience and are looking to expand their knowledge beyond that of writing action diagrams and to include taking a more proactive view at influencing the performance of an application.

Pre requisite knowledge:

• An understand of the Gen development environment
• Data modelling techniques
• Relational databases and SQL