Re: How many folks are developing apps for "smart phones"?

Just finished deploying an iSeries based Blackberry application communicating through a set of pre-existing web services. Web services talk to the iSeries using a combination of java and RPGLE ( Tomcat, Axis and JTOpen ). Blackberry code is all java, and talks to web services using HTTP. Small app, maybe 10 screens.

Pros: As long as the team is comfortable with java, this is a very cheap ( 8 hrs / screen ) development cost, not factoring cost of web services that was already paid for.

Cons: all the cons of distributed applications, ( Versioning, replacing etc ).

If you want any more details, ask and I'll try to say whatever I am allowed to :)

Pillai

On 09/21/2010 11:43 AM, BT Consulting wrote:

Gang,

I haven't been on here for awhile so I might have missed discussions on this.

How many folks are developing apps that provide modern access to iseries data via
"smart phones"? I think it goes without saying "smart phone" access to data is the
"in" thing. I'm ask about this to see if the iseries community is into this modern way of accessing data. I'm not talking about 5250 emulation, although I'm sure there is a need for such access, I'm talking about graphical applications that access company information stored on an iseries with respect to business areas such as customer, product, sales,ordering, system management, business intelligence/ data warehouse applications, etc., etc.

If many ARE doing such apps, I'd like to know if it is, indeed, a popular type of application development for the iseries, what sort of apps are popular, pros and cons developing these sorts of apps for the iseries, problems, what types of languages are used for such applications, etc?

Thanks in advance,

Dave Odom