Java Break Archives

and Other Video Presentations

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 Partnership

BASIS Invests in Your Application Development, Part 1

• 22 Aug 18 - All Extended Edition BASIS licenses on SAM, can immediately leverage the zero deployment capability of the Extended Edition to customize a production-ready digital dashboard to add to your application without having to touch your application or change your code! This Business Intelligence (BI) capability comes at no charge and immediately adds tangible value to both character and graphical applications using PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, or BBj.

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BASIS Invests in Your Application Development, Part 2

• 29 Aug 18 - This Java Break reviews the options available to get the digital dashboard downloaded and installed on your development machine. This Business Intelligence (BI) capability comes at no charge and immediately adds tangible value to both character and graphical applications using PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, or BBj. Join your peers in reviewing this exceptional opportunity to easily modernize your existing business applications.

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BASIS Invests in Your Application Development, Part 3

• 5 Sep 18 - This session reveals how to customize the production-ready digital dashboard to display YOUR data. BASIS created this Business Intelligence (BI) dashboard to add tangible value to your application without having to touch your application or change your code and delivers it to you at no cost! (If video doesn't load please follow this link)

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Customer Success with BBx - On Cue with BUI Apps EMQUE Consultants

• 7 Nov 12 - This third session in the "Customer Success with BBx" series continues to present case studies of how our partners are using the latest BBx to overcome business challenges. In this session, we present EMQUE Consultants, Inc. and their expanding use of BASIS' browser-user-interface (BUI) with their Visual PRO/5® apps.

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Customer Success with BBx - Access Your Data from Anywhere EMS and BUI

• 17 Oct 12 - In this session, we present a large state health agency seeking to give providers a web portal to view patient service statuses remotely from a PRO/5 database.

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Customer Success with BBx - ASCI delivers a RADical Facelift

• 03 Oct 12 - In this session, we present ASCI of Miami and their success in rapidly modernizing and adding new feature and function to their vertical market application.

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Customer Success with BBx - New java Break Series Sneak Peek

• 19 Sept 12 - Series kickoff presents case studies of how our partners are using the latest BBx to overcome business challenges.

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 Language/Interpreter

JavaBreak Make a (BBjHtml) View Work for You

• The BASIS ecosystem has seamlessly incorporated two of the most popular programming languages in the world; Java for traditional enterprise solutions and now JavaScript, the most popular programming language for mobile, web, and desktop applications...

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JavaBreak Mobile Apps Made Easy with BUI!

• BASIS' browser user interface (BUI) has opened new doors for efficient web and mobile application development and deployment. In this session, we will explore the commercial case for going mobile and the development choices you have when moving your existing business app to the mobile environment or for creating a new mobile app.

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JavaBreak Web Apps Made Easy with BUI!

• Since it was first introduced in 2010, BASIS' browser user interface (BUI) has continued to evolve and has opened new doors for efficient web application development and deployment. In this session, we present the new performance, aesthetic and deployment enhancements that have been brought to BUI. 

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BASIS Support Group's Roadmap to Success

• 13 Nov 13 - The move to the BASIS DBMS or multi-tier computing may seem to be a monumental task, but it isn't. The BASIS Support interfaces with our PRO/5® and Visual PRO/5® development partners needing to add modern feature and function or needing new deployment choices. Often, the answer is "Have you considered the BASIS DBMS and/or thin client computing?"

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Getting the Biggest Bang for Your BBx Buck

• 16 Oct 13 - Developers and end users alike are interested in maximizing the value of their BBx investment. Your legacy PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, and BBj applications can receive a new life with modern features and functions such as graphical grid look-ups, archiving, email and more.

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Get Going with the Latest BBx - Downloading, Installing, Deploying, and Licensing

• 27 Jun 12 - Introduces new features and functions, and simplified administration and maintenance in multiple environments - Mac, Windows, Linux, or any combination.

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Best of BBj 12-The Best BBx Just got Faster

• 06 Jun 12 - Highlights the BBj 12 performance gains resulting from refactoring of BBj code and Java 7 JVM; reviews the Dialog Wizard and JavaDoc Utility.

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Best of BBj 12-Faster, Better, New Building Blocks

• 23 May 12 - Reviews the enhanced development tools in BBj 12 with an emphasis on the Barista Application Framework, the Jasper Report Viewer, and the new Resource Bundle Editor

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Best of BBj 12- Database and Sys Admin Tools

• 09 May 12 - Presents the new and improved database and system administration features in BBj 12.

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Writing Your Web App in the Latest BBx - Part 2

• 11 Apr 12, 02 May 12 - Looks into CSS editors and enhancing the look-and-feel of apps; applies new functionality to a BUI app that boosted performance eleven-fold in high latency environments.

Writing Your Web App in the Latest BBx

• 28 Mar 12, 25 Apr 12, 11 Mar 15 - Presents web app development using only BBx and abandoning other languages and third-party tools.

Outputting Your BBx Data- Transforming Your BBx Data Output in a Jiffy

• 25 Jan 12, 08 Feb 12 - Instructs how to transform BBx output - BBj, PRO/5, or Visual PRO/5 - into a modern, clean format with little effort and time using the DocOut object.

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Extending Your BBx App to the Mobile Frontier

• 11 Jan 12 - Presents the design decisions for running your apps on mobile devices - a mouse-less interface and limited real estate.

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Newest BBx - What's In It For Me?

• 16 Nov 11, 30 Nov 11 - Highlights taking advantage of the document output subsystem without moving to Barista and BASIS’ cloud strategy.

How Version 11 Improves Your Bottom Line - BUI and CSS

• 17 Aug 11, 04 Sep 11 - Presents a new deployment choice that does not require Java or App Store fees to run a GUI app in a browser on a desktop, a tablet, or a smartphone.

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How Version 11 Improves Your Bottom Line - Summer Session Overview

• 22 Jun 11 - Introduces the multi-part series covering the four most powerful components to positively impact on your bottom line: database replication, IPv6, Barista enhancements, and BUI and CSS.

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XCALL In Action

• 23 Mar 11, 02 Nov 11 - Highlights the XCALL Verb that provides PRO/5 users with access to a third party RDBMS and access to several BBj utilities - email, fax, Web Services, PDF printing, charting, Google Doc interface, and more.

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Browser User Interface in Action

• 23 Feb 11, 19 Oct 11, 01 Aug 12 - Demonstrates the browser user interface (BUI) in action with examples of BUI in production without requiring an application rewrite.

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Benefits of the Better b-commerce

• 01 Dec 11 - Shows how to write a web app in the language you already know and gives a real-world example of moving a Visual PRO/5 GUI app to BBj.

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Integrating PDF Output Into Your Apps

• 17 Nov 10, 26 Jan 11 - Reviews the ‘triple play’ of portable document file capabilities: SYSPRINT, BBjForm, and BBJasper.

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Mix 'n' Match PRO/5 and BBj - Redux

• 14 Jul 10 - Presents the interoperability of mixing the capabilities of PRO/5 and BBj and Visual PRO/5 and BBj.

Offering PRO/5 and BBj Code as a Web Service

• 09 Apr 10 - Presents how to easily create and consume Web Services in PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, and BBj.

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Mix 'n' Match Java and BBj

• 13 Jan 10 - Showcases blending Java and BBj to deliver modern business solutions.

From CUI to GUI to BUI - BASIS' new Browser User Interface

• 09 Dec 09, 19 May 10, 11 Aug 10 - Presents the BASIS product set and introduces the browser user interface (BUI) and its underlying technologies.

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Session-specific Classpath

 Development Tools

More Good Reasons to Use the Latest BBx Tools

• 11 Feb 15, 19 Nov 14 - BASIS continues to add features and value to their toolset and technology that directly results in significant savings in development time and costs regardless of the version of BASIS product you are using.

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Good Reasons to Use the Latest BBxTools

• 05 Nov 14 - BASIS continues to add features and value to their toolset and technology that directly result in significant savings in development time and costs regardless of the version of BASIS product you are using.

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BASIS RAD Tools Enhanced

• 11 Sep 13 - BASIS continues to enhance its rapid application development tools by incorporating the trusted debugging and error trapping features you depend on.

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NEW FoxPro Conversion Tool (German with Sub-titles)

Present Your BBx Data in GUI in an Instant - A Case Study

• 07 Mar 12 - Highlights modernizing GUI and CUI apps into a grid-style allowing a user-driven query system!

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Accessing Your BASIS Data and Consuming Third Party Data

• 05 Oct 11 - Demonstrates accessing BASIS data and consuming third-party data from business applications.

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New Barista Enhancements

• 03 Aug 11 - Introduces query enhancements that benefit PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, and BBj developers alike by saving queries and producing forms with drilldowns to fax and/or email.

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Plumbing Barista into your Custom App - Building Blocks for Today's Applications

• 09 Feb 11 - Highlights Barista’s role-based security menu system and adding its navigation, search, and tool buttons into custom forms without re-designing the forms in Barista.

Preserving Mods Through Upgrades

• 22 Sep 10 - Shows how to avoid rewriting heavy customizations when new technology or legislation forces a change; allows customers to take advantage of new features and upgrades.

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Why Browsers Matter with BUI-BASIS' New Browser User Interface

• 25 Aug 10, 11 Apr 11 - Introduces developers to writing/converting an app into a browser user interface (BUI), enhancing its look-and-feel, and specific browser performance issues.

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Bridging CUI to GUI: A Hybrid Solution - Part 2

• 30 Jun 10, 12 Jan 11 - Continues the case study using the latest BASIS technology to create a single solution.

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Bridging CUI to GUI: A Hybrid Solution - Part 1

• 16 Jun 10, 29 Dec 10 - Presents a real-world case study inside BASIS of bridging a character-based app to a new GUI app.

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Barista "Perks" With No Effort

• 10 Mar 10 - Highlights several no-cost development utilities available in the Barista Application Development Framework.

Reporting Choices in Barista-Building Today's Applications

• 05 May 10 - Explores integrating legacy columnar reports within the Barista DocOut system or using iReports Design utility to create complex/graphical reports; presents BBjFormObject to replace pre-printed invoices, picking lists, etc.

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Painless Report Writing - Update

• 24 Feb 10 - Delivers an overview of report writing components - SPROC, iReport design tool, BBJasper viewing utility, XCALL Verb - for PRO/5 and Visual PRO/5 developers seeking extra reporting power.

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Developing RDBMS Applications With BASIS Tools

• 27 Jan 10 - Examines the SQL engine, DBMS, and the flexibility of how the Barista data dictionary works with your RDBMS of choice and Barista’s out-of-the-box functionality.

Barista Building a CUI to GUI App - Transition Business Applications

• 30 Dec 09, 24 Mar 10 - Demonstrates converting a CUI app to a modern GUI look with the Barista Application Framework.

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Barista App in BUI on a Droid

Bridging CUI to GUI - A Case Study

• Reviews how a company converted their apps from CUI to GUI and integrated them into a single app using Barista.

Documentation

Node Navigation

SVN Integration

Barista Application Framework with MySQL

iReport Tutorial for BBj and Visual PRO/5

Build a Barista Application in 5 minutes

 Database Management System

Disaster Recovery and Ransomware

• 24 Mar 21 - You may have business crisis planning in place for fire or natural disasters - however, a business needs a data disaster recovery plan as well. What would such a disaster cost your business - in employee downtime, lost data, degraded customer service, and in management time? BASIS's built-in data replication feature is the first step toward building a near-real-time, instantly verifiable disaster recovery plan and securing your business against a ransomware attack. And best of all, the core functionality to such a plan - data replication - is available at no additional cost with your support and maintenance (SAM) coverage.

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Automatic Change Auditing and Replication for Your BBx Apps

• 10 Jul 13 - We've made implementing BASIS' change auditing and database replication faster and easier to set up and manage through a new wizard in the BASIS Enterprise Manager.

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Enabling Data Replication and Auditing for PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, and BBj

• 09 Sep 12 - Recaps database and data file replication and introduces data auditing and then explaining the configuration requirements for enabling these features in PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, and BBj.

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How Version 11 Improves Your Bottom Line- Database and File Replication

• 06 Jul 11, 31 Aug, 11, 18 Jul 12 - Explores Database and File Replication for all of the PRO/5 Family and BBj application data.

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Triggers Facilitate Easy Upgrades

• 21 Apr 10 - Shows how to put triggers to work in BASIS apps to manage easy upgrades.

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On-the-fly Backup and Copy - BASIS' Online Copy Job Feature

• 16 Dec 09 - Reveals how to make live on-the-fly copies of a database, without downtime, even while users are making active changes

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Enterprise Manager SPROC Call

Harvesting a JDBC Connection String

 System Administration

The End of Free Oracle Java! What to do?

30 Jan 19 - The last free critical security patch release of Java 8 is now available. The next release, scheduled for April 2019, will require a support plan with Oracle. This Java Break highlights what this means to your BBj installations, the Oracle timelines, and your choices as a provider or user of BASIS-based technology. BBj system administrators will need to take action by April 2019 to ensure that their applications include the latest Java security updates.

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Backing Up Your BBx Data to the Cloud in a Heartbeat

• 13 Mar 13 - This session is an overview of a step-by-step "how to" on replicating your data to the cloud. This session is for you if you've been curious about the benefits and costs of cloud replication for backup and data warehouse purposes.

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Transform Your BBx Cloud Deployments

• 06 Feb 13 - In this session, we introduce the new BASIS pre-configured Transformer Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that will greatly simplify your deployments

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Moving to the Cloud 2013

• 23 Jan 13 - Divulges BASIS’ experiences moving to the cloud and clears up common uncertainties - where to start, benefits to you and your customers, etc.

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What Does IPv6 Mean to You?

• 20 Jul 11 - Demystifies IPv6 and its effect on developers and their customers.

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System Administration Simplified, Working smarter rather than harder

• 03 Nov 10 - Presents features of the BASIS Enterprise Manager including database tools, Admin API, user authentication; and the built-in Web Server with ‘zero deployment.’

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Moving to the Cloud

• 06 Nov 10 - Divulges BASIS’ experiences moving to the cloud and clears up common uncertainties - where to start, benefits to you and your customers, etc.

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A Fresh Look at Licensing

• 08 Sep 10 - Uncovers the licensing process for BASIS products, how to license virtual machines for cloud computing, and additional licensing benefits.

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 Application Building Blocks

The New Widget Wizard - Dashboards and Widgets Without Any Code!

• 8 Oct 14 - We have created a Widget Wizard -- a point-and-click tool that generates program code -- to create a dashboard, a set of widgets, or an individual widget.

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Embedding Widgets in Your BBx® App

• 7 Jul 14 - Add graphical widgets to your current PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, or BBj business app with little development effort. Graphical widgets deliver huge value to business owners and executives by assisting them with data-based decision making.

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Adding BASIS' New Digital Dashboard to Your App

• 11 Jun 14 - BASIS' new digital dashboard utility delivers huge value to any business and best of all, delivering it requires little development effort on your part.

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Customer Success with BBx - Caffeinate Your CUI/GUI BBx App with GUI Sprinkles

• 09 Jan 2013, 12 Dec 2012 - With less than 10 lines of pre-baked code and a few minutes to setup your custom query, you can caffeinate your character or GUI app with graphical sprinkles. This session presents a step-by-step approach to bringing modern graphical queries and reporting to your legacy character or graphical applications.

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Outputting Your BBx Data-Transforming Your BBx Data Output in a Jiffy

• 25 Jan 12, 08 Feb 12 - Instructs how to transform BBx output - BBj, PRO/5, or Visual PRO/5 - into a modern, clean format with little effort and time using the DocOut object.

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Using BASIS Building Blocks to Create a Webstore

• 14 Dec 11 - Tells what you need to know to present your PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, or BBj database of inventory items for sale on the Web with integration into a back-end ERP solution.

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A Walk Through 'AddonSoftware by Barista'

• 09 Mar 11 - Steps through new AddonSoftware ERP solution features including role-based security and audit logging, and presents a unique ‘commercial open source’ partner program for your consideration.

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