Re: Green screen to GUI

On 9/24/05, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > --- 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.

sounds great! such an application cannot be run in the interactive
subsystem on the 400 because you cant run multiple threads and you
cant use Java in qinter.

>
> 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.

I am just stating that if Microsoft or another large competitor like
Oracle wants to make real inroads into our system they should consider
providing their own version of the interactive subsystem ( and the
server jobs that process things like client program calls and sql
whatevers ).  If Microsoft would commit to the 400 market to the
extent that its code would run on our system, we would have a fighting
chance of surviving.

-Steve