Re: New GUI for green on black... look at webfacing

Hi Chris.

You should take another look at WebFacing from IBM.
It's free, standard on iSeries.
It generates pure Java web applications that run in any environment:
intranet, Internet etc.
It AVOIDS 5250 data stream using data beans which are easier to work with.
Why not just WebFace your app????

Jim Mason

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>>All,
>
>The top brass here have got this idea of putting a GUI menu in front of
our
>existing GoB AS/400 application. The idea is fair enough - it gives the
>whole application a "fresh new face", whilst enabling us to slot in GUI
>functionallity piece-meal as we replace the GoB screens over time.
>
>I'm quite happy we could design a thick client GUI, in VB or Java, using a
>5250 emulator controlled by EHLLAPI.
>
>The problems start when I try to design a web based version. To the best
of
>my knowledge, none of the "standard" 5250-to-HTML converters (Webfacing,
>WSG, iSeries Access for the Web) allow programatic control of the data
>stream, such as the emulator does.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestion on how to solve this problem? Can it be
>done
>without using expensive middleware products?
>
>Any comments gratefully received...
>
>Chris
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