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The WebPublisher Studio Client development toolkit allows you to write database applications that will deliver an Omnis Studio application environment to anywhere in the world over TCP/IP. No need for Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, or similar tools to write systems that will only work on Windows - our Thick Client is platform agnostic and written in Omnis .

This means your applications can behave identically whether you are using the internet or connected to the enterprise LAN.

WebPublisher Studio provides all of the tools needed to write "Thick" Client applications in Omnis Studio using our proprietary .WPX API as well as conventional active server pages over HTML.

The WebPublisher Studio Development Client uses programmable Plug-in libraries to manage data that can be stored in a local Omnis Native Data File (NDF) and/or any other supported proprietary DBMS. You can connect to multiple back-end servers and access content from remote networks. And, because it's Omnis, you can convert your existing applications to retain their interface and database structures but utilise the flexibility of TCP/IP communications and the internet to repurpose your data.

How It Works
Using the Client Toolkit, WebPublisher Studio is programmed to arbitrate the business rules for the web enabled application using server-side stored procedures. Stored procedures are accessed from a Plug-in library located within the WebPublisher Studio server installation.

The Thick Client is programmed to provide the end user interface including data validation rules and table structures that allow data to be packed and transmitted over TCP/IP to the WebPublisher Studio Server. These transmissions are validated on the server according to the business rules programmed in the stored procedures, and a structured response is returned and displayed using the customised Omnis Thick Client interface.