Natural Strategy

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Natural Strategy

• Patrick Gould
• Systems Engineer Dallas

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Natural 2006 Deliverables
NaturalBusinessServices
SOA and Web Services
Application Designer/ Composer
Rich Internet Applications
Natural for Eclipse
Developer Productivity
Increase development productivity Improve
maintainability with automatic analysis and
refactoring Supporting open standards (e.g.
Unicode, XML, SQL)
Natural Engineer
Improve Maintainability
Mainframe, Linux, Unix, Windows
Cross-PlatformSupport
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Natural Development Environments
Natural for Eclipse
Natural IDE, Natural ISPF Character-based
Natural for Windows
Natural Development Server
Natural
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NEW Natural 2006 VersionsMainframe (4.2), Open
Systems (6.2)

• Unicode support for developing internationalized
  applications
• Simplifies XML processing
• Enables electronic document exchange via Web
  protocols (HTTP)
• Directly invoke external Web Services

Example Natural invoking an external Google Web
Service
Unicode Application
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NEW Natural Business ServicesGenerating Web
Services and SOA Applications

• Faster delivery of new service-oriented
  applications
• Model-based Web Service generation
• Service repository manages all development and
  runtime artifacts
• Strong security, reliable communication and
  change audits
• Plug-ins for Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio

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Natural Business Services - Architecture
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Customer Perspective

• Thomas Reimann joined Apollo Optik as the head
  of System Development last year. Prior to that he
  had no experience with Natural as a development
  environment, yet after experiencing the power of
  Natural he has stated
• With Natural 2006 and Natural Business
  Services, we can work towards the implementation
  of a service-oriented architecture and expect
  great advantages in new development initiatives
  and the integration of our Point of Sales System,
  data warehouse and intranet processes
• Compared to other development environments that
  we have used, Natural is highly productive and
  users can learn it very quickly.  Natural is
  strategic to our business.

2006-02-13Software AG Launches Natural Business
Services as First Natural 2006 Product Portfolio
Release
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Natural Next GenerationUsing the Eclipse
Framework for Development

• A new Natural development environment based on
  Eclipse coexisting with Natural Studio
• Attract new programmers
• Extensible framework (open source community)
• Leverage existing Eclipse plug-Ins
• Increase productivity with powerful Eclipse
  features
• Pure Linux development environment
• Leveraging the Natural Single Point of
  Development infrastructure (Natural Productivity
  Package)
• Single look feel across Software AG products
  (e.g. Natural, ApplinX, EntireX)

The Eclipse framework and organization has
already dramatically shifted the landscape for
application development tools. Carl Zetie,
Vice President Forrester Research, Inc., April
26, 2005
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Natural Next GenerationUsing the Eclipse
Framework for Development
Natural Eclipse IDE
Perspectives and Views
Quick Assist
Open Source Plug-Ins
Search Views
Preferences
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Natural for Eclipse Multiple Programming
Languages Environment
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Eclipse and the Natural Development Server (SPoD)
Map to Natural Remote Environment Supports
different remote locations , mainframes, Unix,
Linux
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NEW Application DesignerBuilding Rich Internet
Applications

• Rich Web Applications without Web coding
• Integrated with Natural via Web Services and
  Natural Web I/O
• Be up to 10 times faster delivering new Web
  applications
• Provide rich-client features, e.g. drag drop,
  grids, trees
• Based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

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Development Environment in a Web Browser
GUI Control Library
Web-Page Preview
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NEW Natural EngineerImprove application quality
with automated refactoring

• Determines the code quality and application
  complexity
• Automatically creates application inventory,
  reports and technical documentation
• Improve the code quality and application design
  with automatic code changes and refactoring
• Prepares applications for an multi-tier or
  service-oriented architecture (SOA)

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Addressing the Skills Shortage Issue

• Software AG is committed to Natural and provides
  many free resources
• Developer Community and Newsletter
• Free Natural Productivity Package Personal
  Edition
• Free documentation
• Software AG usergroups around the world provide a
  forum to exchange experience amongst customers
  and discuss with developers directly
• Certification and assessment program
• Natural for Eclipse will motivateyoung people to
  learn Natural

Developer Newsletter
Training Services
Developer Community
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Natural Analyst Research Report
We are impressed by Software AGs approach. We
believe that Natural has as much relevance as it
ever did it does not require detailed knowledge
of complex environments such as Java and J2EE, it
is more productive (for both new developments and
maintenance), better enables reuse, and so on.
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Natural in 2007

• New versions of Natural products
• New Natural products

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Natural 6.3.1 for Open Systems

• Key feature Support of Rich GUI Internet
  applications
• New statement Process page .
• Program editor enhancements
• Find with continue at the beginning
• Expand/collapse comments
• Preview of included code in tooltip window
• DD of selected text within source
• Debugger
• Enhanced UI
• Change for Parameter LSTEP
• Increase of performance
• Default changed to SYSTEM
• Planned ACBX support (OS and MF)
• Format buffer gt 64 kB
• Clobs/Blobs

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Natural 4.3.1 for Mainframes

• Key feature Support of Rich GUI Internet
  applications
• New statement Process page .
• Considering Customer Change Enhancements
• Performance improvements
• Improved codepage support (Unicode)
• Fujitsu MSP support (for Japan)

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Natural Rich GUI Internet Applications
Web Browser
Direct UI Integration
Natural UI statement
Web Service Adapter
Natural Business Services or RPC Subprograms
crossvision Application Designer
Application Composer
Natural
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Natural Rich GUI Internet Applications

• Concept for new Natural Syntax
• Today traditional Map user interface
• Input Using Map
• If Pf-Key ...
• Reinput
• Now modern Rich Web user interface
• Process Page
• If Event
• Process Page Update
• Support of Write/Display statements still possible

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Natural Rich GUI Internet Applications

• The Development Steps
• Design the web page
• Tool is the crossvision Application Designer
• Create the page layout and define the properties
• Generate the (page layout) Natural Adapter
• Generation from crossvision Application Designer
• Develop the web application
• Process Page ltadaptergt, Event, Process Page
  Update

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Natural Rich GUI Internet Applications
Step 3
Step 1

• Design the web page with crossvision Application
  Designer
• Select the page layout template
• Create the page layout and define the properties
• Generate the (page layout) Natural Adapter

Natural for Eclipse
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Natural Rich GUI Internet Applications

• The generated Natural adapter
• Similar to a Natural map
• Used by the Process Page ltadapter-namegt
  statement

generated adapter
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Natural Rich GUI Internet Applications

• The Result
• Rich internet Application

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Natural Business Services Next Versions

• Natural Business Services (NBS) 5.2.1
• Natural Business Services plug-in for Eclipse
• Generate new Natural services from Eclipse
• Reuse existing subprograms
• Migration of existing Construct
  models/applications to service models (Browse,
  Maint)
• Select Natural Construct models from Natural
  Business Service wizard
• Use custom Construct models from the NBS wizard
• Create new services by importing existing schemas
  or WSDLs
• Support X-Arrays and Dynamic Variable

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Natural for Eclipse - Next Releases

• Natural for Eclipse (NFE) next releases
• Natural debugger
• Natural Studio plug-ins for Eclipse
• Predict generation, documentation, XREF
• Natural Construct
• Integration of Eclipse Plug-Ins
• Natural Business Services
• Application Designer

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Natural Runtime Analyzer

• Natural Profiling Tool - for code profiling
  and performance measuring
• Common GUI plug -in
• Tracking Natural programs and statements
• Program and statement execution coverage
• CPU time consumption
• Call statistics
• Accounting information (per user)
• Export to Excel
• Mainframe and Open Systems

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Natural Runtime Analyzer

• Display application traces
• Trace record details
• Restart and Stop tracing
• Several Trace events supported

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Natural Security

• Natural Security Gateway for Open Systems
• LDAP, Microsoft ADS
• Similar to NSF (Natural SAF Gateway)

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Application Control for Open Systems

• Natural configuration management and deployment
  tool
• Controls application deployment from development
  to production
• Integrated with CVS / Subversion open source
  tools
• Supports all kind of resources (Natural, Java,
  XML documents, )
• Secured transfer between deployment stages
• Interfaces with PAC on mainframe

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Multi Platform Versioning Concept
Common concept CVS /Subversion based NAT, Java,
C, XML, other resources Secured
deployment Activity logging Flexible application
lifecycle
Mainframe
Unix, Linux, Windows
PAC for deployment via INCORPORATE
Controlled application deployment
Source code

Natural for Eclipse
Natural for Windows
CVS based versioning
NAT, Java, C,

CVS or Subversion
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CVS/Subversion Based Versioning in Natural for
Windows and Eclipse
Natural
CVS Viewer
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CVS/Subversion Based Application Lifecycle
Concept
Modern user interface Flexible stage
definition History and auditing
History of events
Flexible stages
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Natural 2006 Productivity Packages
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