Re: Future of RPG was: Open Access for RPG

I guess I did a poor job of making my point...

Do you remember the initial announcements about iLook? It was going to be
a free (or open) gui front end for the i. Everyone thought 'wow,
finally!'. It wound up not being free, but the buzz about the announcement
made me realize that not only is it something we need, but something a lot
of people have been waiting for.

An open source portal/framework to seamlessly integrate the existing
applications from 5250-land with new web-centric reports and applications.
Ideally the 5250 portion would even do some basic webification too.

I know there are plenty of pay options for webfacing 5250 apps, but nothing
seems to slam the brakes on a product more than associating a license fee
with it nowadays. If Zend bridge is free, then that is something I
overlooked and will need to check out.

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From: Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:52 AM
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Future of RPG was: Open Access for RPG

Zend for the "i" has a 5250 bridge component that would fill the gap. also

you can write your code to handle a "single" login for your entire
application. as far as a menuing system, those are so easy to write it's
pathetic...

PHP is a fairly easy syntax to pick up and has some pretty powerful
functionality for a scripting language. it's also free (there are some
other components that are pay for use but the base is free).

Thanks,
Tommy Holden

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