RE: Jacada Seagull and the like

Actually, PSC400 supports HTML (several variants, from a 5250 emulation to
very "webby" graphics), thick client, and XML, as well as running
interactively.  In fact, combined with Linoma Logic's Ambassador, we'll
allow you to connect your legacy application directly to your email server.
We can take an email and convert it to an order, and send back the order
acknowledgement as an email response.

Even so, your approach and mine differ in a significant point: with PSC400,
programs do not have to use any special "uniform API", because the PSC400
tool will convert standard RPG I/O opcodes to calls to the PSC400 API.  This
is done automatically, in under a minute.

I agree that once you have a common API, the web side of things is
possible - in fact it's relatively easy.  The hard part is to take an
existing program - one that uses indicators on attributes, and subfiles, and
ERRMSGID, and message subfiles - and convert it to a program that can be web
enabled.

PSC400 does that.  No GUI tools.  No point-and-click on every panel.  Just
run a simple batch command, and your program runs on the web.  Done.

Joe