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Visualize · Mobilize · Realize MCL-Collection

MCL-Collection

and the

Symbol MC3000

Visualize…Preserving Your Investment

Realize…MCL-Collection


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Your Success is Our Success

Dear Customer,

As a recognized leader in delivering enterprise-ready, high-productivity software development tools for multimodal, mobile workforce application development, deployment, and management, MCL Technologies is proud to bring you the latest MCL-Collection. This document describes how MCL preserves your information technology investments through:

Forward migration paths. Cross-platform compatibility of MCL applications. Future-proofing your applications. Minimizing your total cost of application ownership.

This document highlights the following capabilities available in MCL-Collection:

Solution to forward migrate: - Symbol PDT3100 MCL applications to run on Symbol’s new

MC3000. - Symbol DR-DOS terminal MCL applications to run on any of

Symbol’s new MC3000, MC50, and MC9000 mobile computers. Ability to create new applications for MC3000, MC50, and MC9000.

MCL’s commitment to you, your success, and preserving your investments, plus MCL’s dedication to providing the most advanced products on the market, make MCL-Collection of strategic importance to your mobile workforce deployments. Partner with MCL to focus your efforts on solving business problems, not implementation problems. To Our New Customers Welcome! Your selection of MCL-Collection is a decision you will be glad you made. To Our Long-Standing, Valued Customers Thank you! MCL remains dedicated to your continued success. Sincerely, Jean-Francois Jacques Managing Director MCL Technologies


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Preserving Your Investment

Table of Contents

From PDT3100 to MC3000 MCL Application Migration ............................................4

Getting Started on Your MC3000 Project ......................................................5

MCL-Designer Features..................................................................................6

Forward Migration .........................................................................................................7

PDT3140 to MC3000 Example ......................................................................7

Forward Migration Compatibilities ..............................................................10

Add New Functionality.................................................................................10

MCL-Collection and Cross-Platform Compatibility ...................................................11

Porting Assistance.........................................................................................11

Cross-Platform Compatibility.......................................................................12

Forward Migration and Cross-Platform Compatibility.................................12

Future-Proofing Your Investments ..............................................................................13

Future-Proofing Applications .......................................................................13

Total Cost of Application Ownership ...........................................................14

Top Reasons to Use MCL-Collection..........................................................................17


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Visualize… instant application migration

Realize… MCL-Collection From PDT3100 to MC3000 MCL Application Migration

MCL Technologies proudly announces a “Migrate” wizard to instantly forward migrate your Symbol DR-DOS terminal MCL applications to run on Symbol’s latest MC3000, MC50, and MC9000 mobile computers. “Migrate” does more than just upgrade your application. “Migrate” imports, converts, upgrades and enhances your Symbol DR-DOS MCL applications to run on the new generation of mobile computers.

MCL-Designer: Migrate Wizard

Import, convert, upgrade and enhance your MCL applications to run on Symbol’s new generation of mobile computers.

Create New Applications

Porting a low-level ‘C’ like language application from DOS to mobile Windows can be complex and costly. Create your MC3000 application using MCL-Designer, and future-proof your application for the next forward migration.


“TO”

MC3000 MC50 MC9000

MCL-Designer

Accelerates development time. Minimizes on-going maintenance efforts. Reduces total cost of application ownership.

“FROM”

PDT31xx PDT6xxx LDT3805 LRT38xx WSS10xx

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Automatically import, convert, upgrade, and enhance DR-DOS MCL applications from any LRT/LDT/PDT3xxx, PDT6xxx, or WSS10xx to ant new MC3xxx, MC9xxx, or MC50 mobile computer.

Select from list of screen aspect ratios. Enhance from monochrome to color display. Select different font colors for easy recognition of labels and data entry.

Add background picture or company logo. Add toolbar with battery status, date, time.

Add New Functionality to Migrated Application

Change button font types and font colors for easy button recognition.

Re-map keyboard keys. Integrate host access via MCL-Designer’s built-in processes.

Integrate wireless LAN and wireless WAN communications.

Getting Started on Your MC3000 Project

Enter the Symbol Download area on www.mcl-collection.com. Select: Version 3 Environment → The Software → MCL-Designer. Download and install: - Designer engine. - Designer Device Plug-In for the MC3000.

Run MCL-Designer. Modify sample project to start a new MC3000 application, or Launch the Migrate Wizard by selecting File → Project → Import from

V2. - Follow the wizard.

Have your MCL application ready to launch the day you receive your new MC3000 mobile computers! You do not need any hardware to get started on your application development.

Deploy your application using the latest MCL-Collection deployment environment.


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MCL-Designer Features

High-productivity development environment. Quickly create sophisticated, enterprise-ready, mobile workforce, data capture applications with cross-platform portability.

Multimodal applications. Create applications that combine technologies such as barcode scanners, touch screens, keyboards, signature capture, imagers, radio frequency identification, displays, printers, and voice recognition in one application.

Migrate Wizard. Import, convert, upgrade, and enhance your DR-DOS MCL applications to run on Symbol MC3000, MC50 or MC9000.

Graphical User Interface. Use graphical, high productivity features such as dialogue boxes, radio buttons, drag-and drop, cut-and-paste, screen viewer, screen copy, screen insert, and screen delete.

Processes. Implement complex application logic quickly via MCL-Designer’s built-in “processes”. These processes facilitate host access, file manipulation, mathematical computations, communications, and more.

Custom Library. Accelerate development by creating a library of your own frequently used MCL objects for reuse in numerous projects and applications.

Thick client/server architecture. Create device resident applications that control and take advantage of all the unique features of each mobile computer.

Simulator and Advanced Debugger. Simulate your application during development. Debug your application with line-by-line control. MCL-Designer’s Simulator, Debugger, and Verifier are unsurpassed in the industry for application development, testing, and on-going maintenance.

Report Generator. Use this function to boost productivity and quality assurance. How often do your final documents reflect the actual deployed applications? MCL-Designer unburdens you from the tedious, yet critical, task of keeping your documentation in-sync with your applications.

Communications. Create mobile applications that transition seamlessly back and forth between:

Real-time communications and batch communications. Continuously connected and occasionally connected states. WLAN, WWAN and wired communications environments.



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Visualize… forward migration, application upgrades and enhancements

Realize… MCL-Collection

Forward Migration

Definition Forward migration. The upgrade of software from an older version to a newer version. In an MCL environment, forward migration refers to the: Upgrading of an MCL mobile worker application. Upgrading of the MCL-Collection deployment environment components.

Take an MCL application created using an older version of MCL-Designer, regenerate it using the current version of MCL-Designer, and then run it in the latest MCL-Collection environment. This is MCL forward migration. Think of this as a one-way street.

MCL-Collection is designed to preserve the customer’s investment…. the customer’s capital expenditure investment and the customer’s software development investment. In keeping with this philosophy, MCL is proud to announce a new forward migration wizard to instantly “Migrate” your Symbol DR-DOS terminal MCL applications to run on Symbol’s latest MC3000, MC50, and MC9000 mobile computers with mobile Windows operating systems. “Migrate” does more than just upgrade your application. “Migrate” imports, converts, upgrades and enhances your Symbol DR-DOS MCL applications to run on Symbol’s new generation of mobile computers. PDT3140 to MC3000 Example

Consider the case where you own Symbol PDT3140 DOS terminals. You have a warehouse application with receiving, putaway, picking, and shipping functions. The application, application logic, host interfaces and real-time host interactions work on your PDT3140 exactly as needed. Your application is reliable. Your workforce is productive. Now, you have just acquired some Symbol MC3000 Windows CE mobile computers. You want your PDT3140 application to run on your MC3000 with minimal effort.

If you used MCL-Collection to create your warehouse application. MCL has a seamless forward migration solution for you.

If you used a low-level ‘C’ like language or C++ to create your application

for your PDT3140 terminals, MCL recommends that you use MCL-Collection to create your new MC3000 warehouse application. This will position you to seamlessly migrate to future hardware platforms as they come to market.



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You’ll find that you can create your MC3000 application in record time using MCL-Designer, and much faster than using C++ or VB. Also, MCL future-proofs your applications; C++ and VB do not. Not only does MCL-Collection accelerate initial development time, it also minimizes on-going maintenance efforts, and the total cost of application ownership over the entire life of the application.

Whether you used MCL-Collection to create your PDT3140 application, or

are using MCL-Collection for the first time for your MC3000 application, congratulations on your decision. Since MCL provides cross-platform compatibilities and forward migration paths, your software investment will be preserved as Symbol continues to introduce new mobile computers, new capabilities, and new operating systems. Rest assured that MCL will seamlessly blend your various requirements into an efficient working environment.

PDT3140 Application Migration To forward migrate your PDT3140 MCL application into an MC3000 MCL application, select MCL-Designer’s “Import from V2” function. MCL-Designer examines the project to be imported. If the project is a PDT3140 MCL application, MCL-Designer automatically launches the Migrate wizard which steps you through the entire forward migration process. Consider your warehouse application. The migration process not only expedites application deployment on the MC3000. It also minimizes workforce training:

Mobile workers see the warehouse user interface they already know. Mobile workers are immediately productive on the new mobile computers.

Enhance the Look and Feel During application migration, MCL-Designer can enhance your PDT3140 MCL application to take advantage of the MC3000 form factor. For instance, remember that the PDT3140 has an 8x20 display. If MCL-Designer does a straight conversion, the MCL application uses only the top left-hand 8x20 characters of the MC3000 display. However, by enhancing during migration, MCL-Designer creates proportionally larger display screens for you. For example, if you choose the “8x20 Full Screen” Wizard option, the PDT3140 screens are mapped to use the full MC3000 display. MCL-Designer automatically uses appropriate larger fonts and field sizes.



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The Migrate Wizard provides several options to automatically enhance the look of your MCL application for the MC3000. For example:

Select from a list of screen aspect ratios. Select different font colors for easy recognition of labels and data entry,

such as red for barcode input data and green for keyboard input data. Add a toolbar to show information like date/time and battery status Add a display background—color, logo, or template.

Once you Migrate your PDT3140 application to run on the MC3000, you can deploy it “as is”, or you can take advantage of having your project in the latest MCL-Designer to further enhance the look and feel of your application. Some examples include:

Change button font types and font colors for easy recognition of buttons, like red Cancel buttons or green OK buttons.

Make your displayed logo a hot key that invokes your service support phone number, email address, or web site.

Re-map keyboard keys for easier use with a gloved hand, user handicap, or right or left handed usage, for example.



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Forward Migration Compatibilities

Seamless MCL forward migration is not restricted to between PDT3140 and MC3000 devices. “Migrate” is applicable to all MCL applications for the following Symbol terminals:

Symbol Terminals and Mobile Computers Supported by MCL “Migrate”

Operating System “FROM” Operating Systems “TO”

PDT3000 MC3000 PDT3100 MC9000 PDT3140 MC9010 PDT3142 MC9050 PDT3146 MC9060 PDT3300 MC9062 PDT3340

Windows CE 4.x Windows Mobile 2003 Windows Mobile 2003 SE

MC50 PDT6X00 PDT6X40 PDT6X42 PDT6X46 LRT3800 LDT3805 LRT384X WSS1000 WSS1040

DR-DOS

WSS1060

“Migrate”MCL Application

Add New Functionality

To gain extra advantage from your capital investment in new Symbol MC3000, MC50 and MC9000 mobile computers, improve your worker productivity even more by adding new capabilities to your “Migrated” MCL applications. Integrate such capabilities as:

Host access via MCL-Designer’s built-in processes. Integrate to host applications, ODBC compliant databases, warehouse management systems (WMS), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

Voice Recognition (MC9000, MC70, WT4xxx). Radio Frequency Identification. Imaging. Signature Capture. Bluetooth. Wireless LAN or wireless WAN communications.

Having generated your application using the latest version of MCL-Designer, you can now benefit from all the latest sophistication of the MCL-Collection. You now have the ability to implement all the most recent technologies and capabilities offered by MCL and Symbol.



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Visualize… cross-platform compatibility

Realize… MCL-Collection MCL-Collection and Cross-Platform Compatibility

Definition

Cross-platform compatibility. Interoperability. Platform independence. Platform neutrality. The ability to move an application back and forth between devices with different operating systems and/or different form factors. For example, using the current version of MCL-Collection, an MCL application developed for a Symbol mobile computer with a Palm operating system will also run on a Symbol mobile computer with a mobile Windows operating system and vice versa. Think of this as a two-way street.

MCL-Collection is designed to create applications with cross-platform compatibility. Applications are easily ported across mobile computers having different form factors and different operating systems. Whether it is a Palm or a mobile Windows operating system such as Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows CE .NET, or Windows Mobile 2003, MCL-Collection gives complete cross-platform portability of MCL applications with just a few simple clicks of a mouse. To achieve this portability, support for diverse mobile computers is designed into each component of the MCL-Collection. For example, when a new mobile computer is released, a new MCL-Client is created specific to that mobile computer; and, if necessary, a new Designer Device Plug-In is created for MCL-Designer to handle that mobile computer and its unique features. In this way, MCL-Collection allows you to benefit from each mobile computer’s unique capabilities. Porting Assistance

MCL-Designer offers many advanced features to assist you in porting your MCL application to a mobile computer with a different form factor or different capabilities. Consider porting your application between mobile computers with different display dimensions. If some display objects do not fit within the screen boundaries of the ported mobile computer’s display, MCL-Designer’s graphical development environment shows the objects off the screen, but on the drawing canvas. This gives you an opportunity to modify the screen layouts to fit the outlying objects onto the new screen. You can accomplish this in MCL-Designer with a few simple drag and drop actions. Screen objects are very easily moved around without affecting the logic of your application. Now consider porting your application between mobile computers with different capabilities. Your mobile computer is voice capable and your MCL application uses voice recognition. You are now porting your application to a mobile computer that is



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not voice capable; therefore the voice recognition will not work on the ported mobile computer. Do not let this deter you from porting your application. MCL recognizes that the ported mobile computer does not support the desired feature and simply ignores the operation. Your application will run without hazard on the ported mobile computer. Cross-Platform Compatibility

MCL applications are cross-platform compatible across the range of Symbol mobile computers with Palm and mobile Windows operating systems. Here is a matrix of cross-platform compatible mobile computers:

MCL-Collection Cross-Platform Compatibility Matrix for Symbol Mobile Computers

Windows CE 4.x Windows Mobile 2003

Pocket PC 2002

Windows CE 3.0

PALM OS 4.1

Operating Systems

CROSS-PLATFORM COMPATIBLE

MC3000 PDT8100 VRC7942 SPT1550 MC9000 PDT8137 VRC7946 SPT1800 MC9010 PDT8142 SPT1834 MC9050 PDT8146 SPT1842 MC9060 PPT2800 SPT1846 MC9062 PPT2837 MC50 PPT2842 PPT8800 PPT2846 PPT8846 PDT8000 PPT8860 PDT8037 PPT8866 PDT8046

Compatible Supported Symbol Mobile Computers

PDT8056 Forward Migration and Cross-Platform Compatibility

Once you use MCL-Designer’s “Migrate” Wizard to forward migrate your Symbol DR-DOS application to run on a Symbol MC3000, MC50, or MC9000, you can then port your migrated application to any other Symbol cross-platform compatible device listed in the above matrix. Use MCL to deploy a homogeneous population of mobile computers, or take advantage of MCL’s cross-platform compatibilities to deploy mixed mobile computer environments.



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Visualize… minimizing total cost of ownership

Realize… MCL-Collection

Future-Proofing Your Investments

MCL-Collection is developed and optimized for mobile computers and mobile workforce deployments; and since its inception, MCL has preserved customer investments by providing forward migration paths and cross-platform compatibilities. MCL remains dedicated to this mission and to this commitment to you.

obile computers and mobile workforce deployments; and since its inception, MCL has preserved customer investments by providing forward migration paths and cross-platform compatibilities. MCL remains dedicated to this mission and to this commitment to you. Future-Proofing ApplicationsFuture-Proofing Applications

Today’s mobile computers are orders of magnitude more powerful than their predecessors. Organizations investing in this new generation of mobile computers want to gain the most benefit from their investment and take advantage of the capabilities of these new devices with their superior operating systems, powerful processors, crisp color displays, extensive memory capacities, barcode scanners, radio frequency identification (RFID), imagers, voice capabilities, and high-performance wireless communications. However, as technology advances, it is changing more rapidly than ever before. For instance, the lifecycle of operating systems is becoming shorter all the time. Consequently the concurrent existence of diverse operating systems is proliferating. This is very evident in the mobile computing world. Chart 1 depicts these shortening lifecycles and proliferation of diverse operating systems for mobile computers.



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Given the rapid changes in technology, how do companies realize the potential of the new generation of mobile computers yet:

Assure themselves of cross-platform compatibility? Assure themselves of forward migration paths? Future-proof their applications? Protect their investments? Minimize their total cost of application ownership?

The answer is MCL-Collection. MCL is dedicated towards, and optimized for, mobile computers, data capture technologies, diverse operating systems, and cross-platform portability of mobile workforce applications. MCL is designed from the bottom up for platform independence—platform neutrality—for mobile computers. Chart 1 depicts MCL’s cross-platform continuity timeline against the proliferation of diverse mobile computer operating systems. To validate MCL’s ability to future-proof your investments, consider that an MCL application created for DR-DOS can be migrated to run today on a mobile computer running a mobile windows operating system! The same assertion can not be made for an application written in a low-level ‘C’ like language. Total Cost of Application Ownership

Future-proofing your applications has one objective: Reduce your total cost of application ownership.

Think about the cost of application ownership to keep an application current with respect to advances in:

Operating systems as depicted in Chart 1. Wireless communications as depicted in Chart 2. Data capture technologies as depicted in Chart 3.



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Now consider the effort required to keep an application developed in a low-level ‘C’ like language or VB current with regard to these technological advances. Applications developed in a ‘C’ like language or VB must be:

Rewritten for each new operating system. Maintained whenever new system software, such as a driver, is released. Maintained whenever a wireless infrastructure is upgraded. Modified whenever a new technology is introduced, such as voice

capability or RFID. Each time you have to modify your ‘C’ like language, VB, or Java application, your total cost of application ownership increases. This is not the case with MCL. Charts 1, 2 and 3 depict MCL’s timelines for adopting and integrating technological advances into MCL-Collection. The fact that MCL stays current with the latest technologies means you do not have to. MCL does it for you. MCL’s cross-platform compatibility allows you to port your mobile worker application to a mobile computer running a new operating system without the effort of rewriting your application. MCL handles changes to operating systems, system software, and wireless infrastructure. All you need to do is keep the most current version of MCL-Client on your mobile computers. MCL-Client transparently provides the necessary updates to your mobile computing environment.



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As shown in Chart 3, MCL is also continually integrating new data capture technologies into MCL-Collection. For example, MCL invested two years in the integration of voice recognition and voice synthesis into MCL-Collection to provide seamless integration of voice control into your mobile worker applications. Enabling your mobile worker applications with voice capability using a ‘C’ like language, VB, or Java, would require a considerable time and money investment in specification, development, test, documentation, and deployment. By contrast, using MCL, voice enabling your mobile worker applications is achieved using a few clicks in a dialogue box associated with your MCL objects/data fields. MCL’s approach has proven itself over the years. MCL remains committed to future-proofing your mobile workforce applications and minimizing your total cost of application ownership. Copyright © 2007 by MCL Technologies. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form, or by any form, or mechanical means, without permission in writing from MCL Technologies. This includes electronic or mechanical means, such as photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval systems. The material in this package is subject to change without notice. The software is provided strictly on an “as is” basis. All software furnished to the user is on a licensed basis. MCL grants to the user a non-transferable and non-exclusive license to use each software program delivered hereunder (licensed program). Except as noted below, such license may not be assigned, sublicensed, or otherwise transferred by the user without prior written consent of MCL. No right to copy a licensed program in whole or in part is granted, except as permitted under copyright law. The user shall not modify, merge, or incorporate any form or portion of a licensed program with other program material, create derivative work from a licensed program, or use a licensed program in a network without written permission from MCL. The user agrees to maintain MCL’s copyright notice on the licensed programs delivered hereunder, and to include the same on any authorized copies it makes, in whole or in part. The user agrees not to decompile, dissemble, decode, or reverse engineer any licensed program delivered to the user or any portion thereof. Specifications are subject to change without notice. All product and company names are trademarks, service marks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. For more information within your country, please contact your local Symbol Technologies office, Symbol Business Partner, or MCL Technologies.


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Top Reasons to Use MCL-Collection

Core competency in development tools for data capture, mobile workforce applications development, deployment, and management.

High productivity development environment to create applications that integrate data capture technologies, wireless communications, and mobile computing.

Development environment to create multimodal applications combining technologies such as barcode scanners, touch screens, keyboards, signature capture, imagers, radio frequency identification, displays, printers, and voice recognition.

Flexible, modular deployment architecture: - Building blocks to customize host access, network size, and communications

modes. - Easy concurrent access to host applications, ODBC compliant databases,

warehouse management systems (WMS), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

- Scalable deployments from 1 to 62,500 concurrent mobile terminals per server.

- Efficient for small system deployments. - Powerful and optimized for large distributed system deployments. - Real-time, on-demand, or batch data communications.

- Seamless, transparent transitions back and forth between these modes of communication.

- Continuously, casually, or occasionally connected users. - Seamless, transparent transitions back and forth between states of

connection.

Framework so you can focus on functional business issues, and not on implementation issues and constantly changing low-level technologies such as operating systems, wireless infrastructures, and data capture methods.

A focus on minimizing your total cost of application ownership: - High-productivity development environment. - Low on-going maintenance effort. - Modular, flexible architecture. - Easy application deployment and management. - Cross-platform compatibilities. - Forward migration paths. - Future-proofed applications. - Investment preservation.

Benefits to your organization from data capture, mobile worker applications created using MCL-Collection: - A mobilized workforce. - Workforce productivity improvements. - Cost reductions. - Competitive advantages


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