Re: Green screen to GUI

> --- Steve Richter wrote:
> Jobs running in the interactive system are the heart
> of the system.  Interactive code has to be able to
> spawn processes that run on the PC as well as the
> server.

Consider that iSeries Web applications may NOT run in
the QINTER subsystem, but they ARE interactive.  A Web
page may contain say 3-5 inline frames, where each
frame might have events associated with it, even timer
events that evoke new server requests and target any
frame in the browser window.  In a "chat" application
for example, the user may be keying a response in one
frame while message content is being refreshed in
another frame, concurrently.

An iSeries Web application may be responding to client
events that the user may not even know are being
generated by the browser, as well concurrently
responding to server events that the browser might be
unaware of.  Web applications can be HIGHLY
interactive.

Some of us may be so used to a typical 5250 model that
we don't think outside the box.  Then when Microsoft
comes along with a proposal for a rich event driven
user interface, we may think we have to jump on the
band wagon to gain those kinds of results.  Nothing
could be further from the truth.

Nathan M. Andelin




                
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