RE: Web-Facing Tool

I'm not sure, Phil, except as a quick way to put a pretty face on your old
applications.  It's technically free, but it requires not only WebSphere,
but also a hefty interactive CPW as well.  As far as I know, there are very
few solutions out there that manage to remove the interactive tax.  I
believe Jacada does, but they impose a heavy performance penalty by using a
lot of RMI calls in their server middleware.  The only other tool I know of
that you can see a working demonstration of today is my PSC400 product.

Also, as far as I know, only my product has a true "green screen emulation"
that emulates most typical green screen features through pure HTML (as
opposed to an applet).  That way, you can have a version that requires
virtually no retraining, while still having the option to create a
customized front end with a more "graphical" look and feel - both using the
same RPG program (which, by the way, will still run as an interactive 5250
application if you need it to!).

Joe Pluta
www.plutabrothers.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil
>
> It does?!  Then what's the point of using that product?
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Pluta
> >
> > Web-facing currently imposes the interactive tax on all sessions.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: tmalin@csc.com
> > >
> > > Anyone know if the Web-Facing tool runs interactively or in
> Batch on the
> > > AS/400. This is very important, as far as how many users sign
> on via the
> > > internet.