Local software solutions company EmSoft has announced the availability of the Four J`s Universal Compiler technology in its product range.
Targeted at users with legacy 4GL/Informix environments who want to break out of the green-screen interface, the product maintains a thin-client/server architecture, and translates to a Windows GUI, HTML- or Java-compliant browsers, and X Windows (X11) systems.
Gilbert Parsons, MD, EmSoft Group, says that Four J`s - the product vendor -is also expected to release a compiler for XML and Wireless Application Protocol, allowing customers to take their old thin-client applications to modern front-ends. Also expected is a compiler to translate the 4GL language to different back-end databases, including SQL, DB2, Oracle and other modern data sources.
Green screens are automatically churned into graphical screens, while the standard ring menu can be replaced by a side menu and a toolbar. All hidden commands, such as the COMMAND KEY and ON KEY, are automatically represented as buttons, which can be labelled according to context in a resource file. An icon or text can be assigned to simplify use. Array display and entry fields are automatically given scroll bars if the number of lines exceeds the size of the window. Each entry field has the usual GUI editing functions.
Four J`s Universal Compiler can generate either C-Code or P-Code modules. Execution performance and memory management of Four J`s P-Code are as efficient as those of the C-Code generated by other compilers. The P-Code modules are linked, dynamically loaded at run time with their text elements shared. Using this technology, the generated P-Code application is up to 30 times smaller than the original and is fully portable across all Unix and Microsoft Windows NT platforms.
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