RE: No 5250-based applications

James,

I agree with you completely. What we really need is not an application
(browser), wrapped around another application (our web-app), but rather a
rendering engine and application environment that is embedded deep within
each operating system, and responds to a universally standard bytestream. If
that bytestream is some form of mark-up language, then so be it.

I was merely pointing out that we're basically talking about a virtual
machine. The JVM is not the first, or only VM out there. Although the JVM
might be considered a moving target, so is a browser, an OS, or any other
piece of software. Every software upgrade introduces the possibility of
incompatibility - even our OS/400.

Now, build it would ya... :)


John Taylor
Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of James W. Kilgore
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:56 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: No 5250-based applications
>
>
> John,
>
> I thought about the JAVA emulation programs, but that would require a
> JVM and I was trying to avoid that.
>
> IMHO, the problem with using a browser is that it is -too- rich in
> function and this is what creates the problems of using a browser for
> enhancing classic 5250 functions.
>
> But a thin browser (no icon for launching email, no 'view source', etc.)
> but a browser that can do style sheets, tables, forms, the 'back' button
> would issue the same as F12, sort of a cross breed where you make a
> browser behave more like a TN5250 session without having still another
> moving target piece of software involved (JVM).
>
> The ultimate purpose is to remove the job from the interactive
> characteristics.
>

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