I've been told that there's no such thing as a 'dumb question', so here goes!! I was given responsibility for maintaining a bunch of PowerBuilder apps for our company. No problem with most of them, but I discovered that the source code for one of them has disappeared. We have the executables (.exe and.pbd), and the app is being used every day. Now I'm faced with needing to make some changes. Without the source.pbl's, I'm at a loss. Is there any way to 'reverse engineer' the executables to produce the source pbl's???

Reverse engineering PowerBuilder Reverse engineering PowerBuilder You can reverse. Generating objects for PowerBuilder Select Tools All the classes of the.

Is there any tool that will reverse engineer a PBL file and print detailed reports from this. PowerBuilder is the award-winning development software / tool owned by SAP that simplifies the. Protect your PowerBuilder code against reverse-engineering and. Fsx Fsps Fiber Accelerator V1.2.0.0. This was the genesis for ResQSoft® Engineer. VB, PowerBuilder, MUMPS, MAPPER. Engineer’s reverse-engineering tool is flexible enough to accommodate.

The app was created in Pb7.0 Any help would be appreciated. Ken RE: Reverse Engineering?? Guest (visitor) 27 May 02 14:39. Some key fonctions only works with 'pbl's. I already uses LibraryImport on PBD and it was working fine. I though that LibraryExport would work as well, but it's not the case. Even LibraryDirectory don't work.

So i'am at a loss. Don't know if thoses functions works with 'pbd's on your PB versions. By the way, I've found a way to get library list. You must export project object ant then read lines beginning by PBD. So good luck and keep me posted if you find something! Cafeinomane RE: Reverse Engineering??

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You can open any.pbd or.dll that was compiled in Powerbuilder and copy the objects into a blank.pbl. Pfeifer[TeamSybase]' wrote in message news:MPG.12f811aabdf7@forums.sybase.com. >In article, scientex@aros.net says. >>Is there any tool that will reverse engineer a PBL file and print >>detailed reports from this.

>>>>TPS >>>>>I believe PowerDesigner will do this as well. >>Mark >>-- >>Mark J. Pfeifer[TeamSybase] Corporate Technology Partners, Inc. >mpfeifer @ sprynet.com Emerging Technology Solutions >www.ctpartners.com >>e-Map Solutions Provider. In our invoicing system, we have lost one PBL file.

We have all the libraries except for one. This one file we have in PBD form but need to bring it back to PBL to make some modifications. Can this be done?

Thanks Avi No. The best you can do is rename the PBD to a PBL and then you can see a list of objects. That's how far it will go. -- Terry Dykstra (TeamSybase) product enhancement requests: wrote in message news:42.

Hi to all, I reverse engineer our whole ERP system developed in Powerbuilder 7. As a start of my documentation with PD.

I just noticed that PD can't do reverse engineer having more than 63 libraries (*.pbl). It seems that variable captures the library list of PD is overrun or something like that although i'm not sure since i don't know the technical part of PD. My question is, is there any patches or did i miss some setup in PD to avoid this problem? My only suggestion (not being a PowerBuilder guy) is to try this with V11.1 to see if the lim. Dear All, We currently work in an well-known ERP domain with Sybase PowerBuilder 7.0 and SQL Server 200/Oracle 10g. Due to some technical issues(not related to client requirements) we need to reverse enigineer some PBD files to their initial PowerBuilder Library(s) because we've lost the source PBL's. Can you please suggest any suitable and fruitful means to do that without the violation of intellectual patents and S/W rights conforming to BS7799 standards.

All/any suggestions are welcome. Awaiting your help,ASAP,Thanks, Deepesh Basu. There are none. On 18 Dec 2006 21. Hi, I am really interested about the reverse engineer from PowerBuilder application, because I want to transform PowerBuilder code into Java code. I did the reverse engineering, so I had the class diagram and I changed the object language to JAVA, but the code didn't change (only the class definition) i.e: the 'for, if, while' structures remains like Powerbuilder structures not Java structures. Is there not a way that I can use to obtain more changes into the code?

(if not all, more than I did) Sorry, but that is the limit of what PowerDesigner can do. It really was ne. What's available thats built into Visual Studio 2005? Nothing I believe, except maybe for ildasm.exe. VS is really for creation of new things, not for reverse enginnering.Thanks------------------------------------------------------------This posting is provided 'AS IS' with no warranties, and confers no rights. My company is in the process of migrating from A.S.E. 11.5 to A.S.E.