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From: Trevor Perry
why would you suggest PHP as "thin presentation layer"?

To qualify my answer, let me admit that I don't use PHP. And I don't use Net.Data much, either. I normally handle the entire request-response cycle with ILE service programs. So my answer is more from a concept-level rather than hands-on experience.

But what if I didn't have an ILE toolkit to map http request data to ILE program variables? Or to map program data to HTML response streams? I could use something like Net.Data or PHP for that.

I'd consider an architecture where the scripting environment (whether PHP or Net.Data) did little more than receive requests, map input data to formats that could be passed to ILE servers via data queues, receive response data in return, and map it to HTML output streams. Other developers might use a call-level interface.

So your DB I/O and business logic is handled by the native language environment. Or, in Dave Odom's case, perhaps handled by the REXX language environment, or the SQL language environment.

Nathan.



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