>>Anyone here have experience moving VFP apps to Servoy? If so, can you share your experiences... the good, bad, and ugly. How time consuming was the process, issues moving from VFP's report writer to Servoy's (?), etc....
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>>Also, any use this migrator tool?
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>>http://www.fmpromigrator.com/products/fmpro_migrator/index.html
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>FWIW: Based on what I know, Servoy is not a solution I would ever choose. Java (blech), with run-time licensing (blech).
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>For an established multi-platform solution I would choose WinDev or for a newcomer, I would look into Lianja.

Run-Time licensing is bad for us habituated to vfp - but vfp did not survive, nor did most of the other xBase
tools with similar license type. Lianja has a mixed mode and cost structure is not finalized yet.

But while Servoy itself is Java, you code most of the app i javascript (not the fairest language of them all...)
but at least a dynamic language. And the proliferance in the Web makes it sure that learning JS is not a wasted effort.

You can fall back to coding java as I fall back for 0.3%% of vfp code to implement a few special things i C for speed benefits -
But just becuase you can do that, it is not necessary for a large amount. And the JS implementation in java
(Rhino's in real live are fast for their bulk...) at least has now picked up some hints from V8 and Greasemonkey,
so it is getting fatser.

And yes, I am one of the guys looking hard at Lianja (actually doing more than looking).
But Servoy as a Tool is not that bad - one of the best 5 in java land.

my 0.001€

thomas