Synon 2E and Plex Emporium by Lee Dare (A developer blog)

A little look Plex-XML Framework Many of you may have had read about the Plex-XML framework from Allabout Gmbh.  There have been mentions online ( http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=70063&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr or PlexWiki for example).  The guys were at the conference in 2007 and this caused quite a stir in the Plex community.  Well the technology is still going strong. I decided that I’d take a look.  This is the great thing about having a role which is focused on R&D and application architecture, you get to play with things, this is of course allowed by my employer www.sasit.co.nz who specialise in mission critical systems hosting and development (Harmless plug) so take a  look at the web page.  The pressure comes when you need to back up your decisions, so interesting times..... My investigation was a case of downloading the relevant stuff from the guys as well as Eclipse (IDE), MySQL (Database), Java JRE (Runtime), Senchas Ex...

Beginners Guide to the CA Plex Model API using C# .NET - Part 1 Edit: Added to a summary site for Plex Model API https://leedare-plex2e.blogspot.com/2025/12/ca-plex-model-api-related-posts.html Firstly thank you to Rob Layzell for inspiring this blog.   If it wasn’t for his lab exercises I would have done this Model API exercise and subsequent blog using CA Plex and component import.  Now, whilst this is probably a cool thing using a code generation tool to interrogate and update the code generation tool repository (I am sure there must be a word in the OO world to describe this.  JJJ ).  In the back of my mind I was also acutely aware that release 7.0 is entering beta testing and the much anticipated C#.NET (WPF) client will soon be upon us.  So there isn’t a better opportunity for me to sharpen the old grey matter with some learning than this.  I chose to continue with the C# coding for the simple reason that it would be worthwhile me understan...

“RTFM!” (Read the effing manual) - that was the polite version. That’s what I was told when I first started programming.  Not every time (obviously), but on that odd occasion where the question was a repeatedly asked one (by me) or that time the more senior programmer didn't eat his oats in the morning. To this day I still hear this from the more seasoned developers around me.  But I must say that this phrase (I believe) is in steep decline.  Could it be said that my generation of developers may be the last to utter this immortal programming phrase.  You see (or should I say hear) more and more “RTFM” is being replaced by “Just Google it.” Today I was working with CA Plex 6.1’s Model API.  I was trying to automate a common task that I perform in my model and ultimately cut down on some keystrokes, mistakes and most importantly, ensure ‘ THAT I’ conform to the standards ‘ THAT I’ have decided and (hopefully) along the way help the other develo...