Product overview
Recital 9 Web Developer Components
Features and Benefits
Key Features
Recital 9 Web Developer System Requirements

Product Overview

The Recital Firecat HTTP server handles the generation of dynamic content HTML and sends this back to the browser that requested the page. These pages have a ".rsp" extension (Recital Server Page). Recital Firecat can serve static html pages, images, and Recital Server Pages (.rsp pages) similar to the way PHP dynamic pages are generated. With Recital Firecat .rsp pages, you can embed Recital/4GL scripting commands inside HTML documents. Recital Server Pages are really just HTML files with Recital/4GL scripting embedded within them. Any scripting commands that are embedded within the file are executed then removed from the results. All scripting code is hidden from the user viewing your web pages.

Recital 9 Web Developer Components

• Recital Enterprise Studio IDE (Optional additional purchase)
• Recital Firecat HTTP Server
• Apache module plug-in for Linux and UNIX
• ISAPI extension plug-in for Windows
  

Recital Enterprise Studio is a common application development workbench used to develop, debug, and deploy Recital 9 Terminal, Graphical, Web and Database Server applications across multiple platforms including Windows, Linux and UNIX. Please click here for a tour of Recital Enterprise Studio.

Features And Benefits

Choose your favorite Web Server
Recital 9 Web Developer comes complete with its own web server, but if you prefer to use your existing Apache or IIS web server, Recital Web Developer can be easily integrated with your current setup. The Recital Web Developer distribution for Linux and UNIX includes an Apache loadable module and instructions on its installation. On Windows, Recital Web Developer includes an ISAPI filter and details on configuring IIS to work with the Recital Firecat Server.

Broad cross-platform support
The Recital 9 Firecat Server runs on Windows, Linux and UNIX servers.

ANSI compliant SQL
The Recital 9 Firecat Server has a complete ANSI compliant SQL engine that works with Recital, Visual FoxPro, FoxPro, FoxBASE, Clipper, and CISAM data.

Visual FoxPro 8.0 compatible database server
The Recital 9 Firecat Server also includes a complete Visual FoxPro 8.0 compatible SQL engine that works with Recital, Visual FoxPro, FoxPro, FoxBASE, Clipper and CISAM data.. The Visual FoxPro 8.0 compatible SQL engine also provides complete support for writing server-side stored procedures in Visual FoxPro.

Provides Enterprise Data and Legacy Application connectivity
The Recital 9 Firecat Server provides connectivity to relational and non-relational data sources, transaction systems, and legacy applications through native drivers across all major computing platforms.

Integrated XML support
The Recital 9 Firecat Server provides integrated XML language support providing Microsoft ADO.NET XML compatible data import and export that works with Recital, Visual FoxPro, FoxPro, FoxBASE, Clipper, and CISAM. You can import and export data across platforms using XML.

Very Large Database support
The Recital 9 Firecat Server supports Very Large Databases (tables larger than 2GB) up to 2^63 bytes. Archiving large amounts of data in Recital 9 has never been easier.

Easy to Install and Configure
The Recital 9 Firecat Server is easy to install and configure.

World class customer support
Should you ever need help getting the most out of our products, our technical support team is available by email, phone or fax to answer your technical questions about our products. We'll provide the kind of support you’ll need during development and afterwards.

Write server-side business logic in Visual FoxPro
Included with the Recital 9 Firecat Server, is full support for server-side stored procedures, business logic, and triggers written in Recital, Visual FoxPro, FoxPro, and Clipper.

Navigational and SQL Data Access
The Recital 9 Firecat Server engine provides navigational access to databases as well as SQL data access. Navigational data access is invaluable when application performance is critical.

Active Data Dictionary
Create persistent relationships between tables, stored procedures, events, triggers, rules, and default values.

Database Events
Control user actions with code that executes when a database is opened, closed, or modified.

Structured Error Handling
Control and encapsulate error handling in code using TRY...CATCH...FINALLY structure, escalate exceptions using THROW, and manage using Exception objects.

Local and Remote Views
Build applications based on queries that return filtered data for increased performance. Take remote data offline for added power.

	Client/Server Integrated Development Environment for developing Web, Windows and terminal user interfaces
	Works with Windows, Linux and Unix Firecat Servers across the Internet
	Project Manager to organize and manage all files in a project
	Team development features with file versioning and synchronization conflict management
	Automatic synchronization of modified files with the Server
	Advanced Code Editor to reduce coding time with features that display color-coded syntax, block indent, comments, bookmarks, and shortcuts.
	IntelliHelp technology to decrease coding time by using powerful, extensible language assistance as you type including automatic statement completion
	Global "Find In Files"
	Global "Replace In Files"
	Manage "Things to do" using task lists
	Keep a history of code changes using revision lists
	Editable "Project Notes" panel for keeping reminders, and project status reports
	Fully integrated and extensive reference documentation

Key Features of Recital Firecat Server

	Uses standard security/authentication of either Apache or IIS including "https" support
	Cross-platform Visual FoxPro 8.0 compatible SQL with local cursor engine including all SQLxxx() functions
	Enhanced Visual FoxPro 8.0 language and function compatibility
	Language compatible with FoxPro 2.6, SCO FoxBASE, and Clipper
	ANSI SQL syntax compliant
	Navigational and SQL data access
	Active Data Dictionary
	Supports stored procedures, triggers and user-defined functions written in Recital or Visual FoxPro
	Broad cross-platform support; Windows, Linux, and Unix
	Complete support for SQL subqueries
	Flexible security system with column-level protection
	Enhanced integrated XML language support providing Microsoft ADO.NET XML data import and export
	Enhanced built-in Client/Server capabilities with universal data access via open system gateways
	Supports Visual FoxPro 8.0 database events including CHECK and ERROR
	Supports MySQL extensions including CREATE/DROP/USE DATABASE and running .sql files
	Supports Very Large Databases (tables larger than 2GB) up to 2^63 bytes
	Supports joins across multiple databases using the database!table command syntax
	Supports nested transactions
	Supports enhanced database security with built-in DES3 encryption

System Requirements

Recital 9 Enterprise Studio Requirements:

• Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP/2003/Vista
• Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework
• Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package

Recital 9 Firecat HTTP Server Requirements:

• HP PA-RISC HP-UX® 10.20 and above
• Sun® SPARC Solaris™ 8 and above
• SCO® OpenServer 5.0.5 and above
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and above
• Sun® Intel® Solaris™ 10 and above
• IBM AIX® 4.3 and above
• Intel® Linux Redhat 7.2 and above
• Other Intel® Linux requires kernel >= 2.4
• HP Intel® Itanium® HP-UX® 11.23 and above
• Intel® / AMD™ 64 bit Linux

Large File Support is available for Windows, Itanium HP-UX and Linux. Linux Large File Support requires glibc >= 2.2 and an ext2 file system