There is a new data access class called EnterpriseServerDataItem which allows a connection to be established to the Middle Tier Enterprise server.  Obviously none of this has been released as of yet.  But connecting to the server is literally as easy as connecting to a SQL Server connection.

I’d like to expand on Gehard’s question and ask if there is a way or plans to provide a way to connect a StrataFrame WinApp to web services provided by others. This could be a mainframe app. Is the new data EnterpriseserverDataItem class limited to establishing connections to the StrataFrame Enterprise Server or will it allow connections to other web services?

-Larry

The EnterpriseServerDataSourceItem is exclusive to StrataFrame's Middle Tier Enterprise Server.  There is a lot of logic specific to the Middle Tier Enterprise server just as there would be in SqlDataSourceItem or VFPDataSourceItem.  In fact, there is actually more because there is logic for encryption and custom serialization to make things as fast as possible.

If you want to talk to a disparate web services not related to StrataFrame, you will want to create your own data source item.  Basically you will inherit the DbDataSourceItem and start adding your functionality.  Obviously this is a bit of a simple explanation.  Here is the problem with us just creating a "one class does it all" data source to talk to a web service....every connection is different.  It depends on how it has been exposed and developed as to what is required by the data acces layer.