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Hard for me to believe that XML has that much overhead.
A millisecond or so. I know, it's nit picking.
OK, but how do you parse the JSON?
You're right about it not being built into the RPG language, and I don't have a good answer. Aaron Bartell' RPGUI framework uses an open-source product of Michael Schmidt, and Henrik Rutzou has some type of support in his open-source PowerExt framework. I'm just throwing out ideas for discussion.
All things are possible with the right framework. If Eric had one then this discussion would probably not include PHP because it would be superfluous. Eric could be doing everything with an ILE framework. We use a home-grown ILE framework.
This discussion could be about interfacing with browsers, rather than interfacing with PHP clients. I started a poll on Linkedin asking for preferences in browser user interfaces:
1. Traditional HTML page at a time (CGI, JSP, PHP).
2. HTML page plus AJAX.
3. Static HTML plus remote procedure calls, using JavaScript.
4. Use a JavaScript Rendering Engine such as Sencha.
5. Let a tool generate the UI, don't worry about low level details.
So far, option 4 is leading with 45% of the vote.
We use 1 and 2 extensively now. But I'm interested in getting into 3.
-Nathan
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