Deprecated facilities

The following facilities are deprecated. Do not use them in new development.

Rule types

Deprecated	Replacement
Rule-Report-***	Replaced by list view rule type. See About List View rules.
Rule-Declare-Constraint	Replaced by the Rule-Declare-Constraints rule type. See About Constraints rules
Rule-Declare-Expression	Replaced by the Rule-Declare-Expressions rule type. See About Declare Expression rules.
Rule-File-Form	Use harness rules to define rule forms. See About Harness rules.
Rule-HTML-FixedList	No longer necessary. Use Rule-HTML-Property.
Rule-Obj-JSP	No longer necessary. Use Rule-Obj-HTML, Rule-Obj-XML, or another stream rule type with JSP tags.
Rule-RDB-SQL	Replaced by Rule-Connect-SQL rule type. See About Connect-SQL rules.
Rule-Query-List	Replaced by Rule-Obj-ListView rule type. See About List View rules.
Rule-Query-Summary	Replaced by Rule-Obj-SummaryView rule type. See About Summary View rules.
Rule-Service-CORBA	Use any other service type: SOAP, EJB, HTTP, and so on.

Methods

Deprecated	Replacement
Assign-Delete
Assign-EstablishContext
Index-Finish	Replaced by Declare Index rules. See About Declare Index Rules.
Link-List
Obj-List	Replaced in most cases by the Obj-Browse method followed optionally bu the Obj-Filter method.
Property-Set-Special	Replaced by Property-Set method.
Show-Applet	Replaced by Show-Page method
Show-Applet-Data method	Replaced by the Show-Property method.
Wait-for-Connector	Replaced by Connect-Wait method.

Other

Deprecated	Replacement
Activities that use the 02 API (on the Steps tab)	Activities that use the 03-02 API.
Data-Admin-ClassGenerator class	See About the Connector and Metadata accelerator.
Data-Admin-ConnectGenerator class.	See About the Connector and Metadata accelerator.
Data-Customer class	Use Data-Party-COM or Data-Party-Person.
Property type of `Amount`.	Use `Decimal` as the type.
Application Document tool	Use the Application Document wizard.
Application Accelerator	Use the Enterprise Application accelerator.
Use of libraries named `Default` for new function rules is discouraged.	Create other libraries with more descriptive names, and place new functions in them rather than in a library named Default.
Harness rules, section rules, and flow action rules not converted to SmartFrames format	Unconverted rules continue to operate, but conversion to the SmartFrames format is encouraged. Click Update on the Layout tab (or the Form tab, for flow actions) to convert rules created in releases before Version 4.2SP2 to the newer SmartFrames format.
Organization, division, and requestor data instances that contain lists of RuleSets and versions.	Use of application rules (Rule-Application rule type) rather than lists is encouraged. See About Application rules.
`$mode-display` in HTML code	In releases before V5.4, the boolean keyword `$mode-display` detected read-only output mode for HTML. The `$mode-display` keyword is deprecated for new development; use `!mode-input` instead.