RE: Future of RPG

HTML5 is a W3C standard and there is no problem running it
with a other tool fir for iSeries:

http://www.sencha.com/

Henrik





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I would put money on Google coming out with their> own UI technology in

the next couple years that will> put the others to shame
They already "have" that, it's called HTML5.And their tooling for this is
GWT.

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:06:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Future of RPG
From: aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx
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Blake said: The most important thing is to write modular code as is
stressed over and
over again by people on this list. Separate concerns by breaking your

data

access logic and business rules into RPG service programs or what have
you. If architected properly, you can then re-use that logic any number

of

ways, whether it be for a 5250, browser or fat-client application. I'm

not

saying anything a lot of people on this list don't already know (and
better than myself), but maybe it will provide a starting point.
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In the end you summed it up right on the money. We all have had
different experiences with successes and failures of the various
technologies. For those that DO plan on testing the waters with
non-IBMi technologies, then the best insurance policy is to build for
the "just in case it doesn't work out" scenarios, and that is building
modular and building for change in the landscape.

I would put money on Google coming out with their own UI technology in
the next couple years that will put the others to shame (i.e.
Silverlight, Flex/Flash, JavaFX, etc). Google has the advantage of
watching on the side lines the current fiascos going on and the
advantage of a ginormous check book to write checks with when the time
is right. Look how short of a time it took them to become a contender
in the mobile phone OS market? Two, maybe three years?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
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