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I have been reading the documentation and want to understand some more details about the Application Server. I currently am using VFP9.0 and I have created a web module in VFP that is complied into a COM object that is called by my web server. The result is that I have the full power of VFP available from a web page. Clicking a URL causes a method to be called in my COM server and I can obviously do whatever I want in the method. I can doing anything I can do in VFP minus the GUI. I can load activeX controls, ftp data, use sockets to connect to remote devices or serial ports, create reports etc. So I am wondering whether this is true of the application server. It appears to me that you should be able to do this however, much of the code samples appear embedded in web pages. Can I actually write code in XBasic and loads these modules upon request and run them in the application server? Basically can I do anything I can do in the desktop version of Alpha5 minus the GUI in the Application Server? I would like to be able to separate the web interface from the business objects which makes for easier maintenance using an nTier approach.
Can I off load long running processes to a 2nd application server so that I do not load down other users on the 1st application server?
I have been reading the documentation and want to understand some more details about the Application Server. I currently am using VFP9.0 and I have created a web module in VFP that is complied into a COM object that is called by my web server. The result is that I have the full power of VFP available from a web page. Clicking a URL causes a method to be called in my COM server and I can obviously do whatever I want in the method. I can doing anything I can do in VFP minus the GUI. I can load activeX controls, ftp data, use sockets to connect to remote devices or serial ports, create reports etc. So I am wondering whether this is true of the application server. It appears to me that you should be able to do this however, much of the code samples appear embedded in web pages. Can I actually write code in XBasic and loads these modules upon request and run them in the application server? Basically can I do anything I can do in the desktop version of Alpha5 minus the GUI in the Application Server? I would like to be able to separate the web interface from the business objects which makes for easier maintenance using an nTier approach.
Can I off load long running processes to a 2nd application server so that I do not load down other users on the 1st application server?
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