Re: HATS

I work with a rules based GUI system every day. The developers of the
software I work with have done an incredible job - amazing me at every turn.
But, no matter what the hype, rules based GUIs need some work to take your
green screens to the web and make them look WEB. Few products can do
rules-based the way it should be done - that is, to reduce the effort of the
refacing exercise.

Screen scraping (even rules-based), on the other hand, is much easier, but
does not produce true GUI. Understanding the difference is important - and
should be the first requirement when you are looking at these kinds of
tools. If you want GUI, if you want WEB look and feel, the choices are
different than simply screen scraping in a web environment. If you want
screen scraping, it may be as "easy" as it looks.

My advice: Decide whether you want GUI or screen scraping. If you want GUI,
learn what GUI really means before you make any decisions on software. Then,
match the product hype with what GUI really means.

Trevor

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Subject: RE: HATS

> Dang! Nice find Rob! Am contacting my BP now. Thank you.
> He'll probably take a couple of days to get back to me on this.
> If I dont see any other traffic on this topic I'll report back.
>
> Shoot, looks too easy. <BG>
>
> Dale