Re: Web5250 Business Developers was ->Re: IBM Gives RPG Devotees Their Own Café

The answer is: It is open source and I understand the tn5250j license on which it is based, it should be able to be integrated with any other open source project as ong as the license trems are met (it's GPL IIRC)

The basic Web5250 stuff was some thrown together, proof of concept stuff I did years ago (at least 5) while I was trying to come up with a menuing system that would be web based but could still run 5250 apps. The basic idea was that as 5250 programs were replaced with web based analogs the end user wouldn't have to learn a completely new menuing system to go anywhere but the existing browser. So I built with prototype which is really just a very thin layer (well, not thin enough for Nathan!) over the top of tn5250j. Just parsing the 5250 stream and sending it to the browser with a servlet. Really, nothing more than that. I started on a keyboard mapping add on and was working on a way that a user could set preferences for colors, fonts and the like but I had other projects that I needed to make money with so I set web5250 aside.

Always ready to contribute to the Open Source community, expecially if it can continue to enhance the IBM i OS platform.

Pete


Niels Liisberg wrote:

Pete wrote>> I learned more than I wanted to when I wrote the web5250 stuff, rendering 5250 directly into the browser (no plugin needed, just a browser, since it was producing "pure" html)<<

Hi Pete;

I'm not familiar with your "web5250 stuff", but I have come across some
request in that directions.

Is it possible that we can bundle it into the soon coming open-source of
IceBreak?


Best regards


Niels Liisberg
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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: 20. december 2008 01:28
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Business Developers was ->Re: IBM Gives RPG Devotees
Their Own Café

"On my TODO list I have an intention to dig into the TN5250 and TN5250J
projects to see how they evaluate the 5250 stream and eventually render it
to the client. "

There was one guy on the tn5250j list that was doing some on the fly rendering of a more graphical interface, similar to screen scraping, using tn5250j. I learned more than I wanted to when I wrote the web5250 stuff, rendering 5250 directly into the browser (no plugin needed, just a browser, since it was producing "pure" html).

Do take a look at tn5250j. It is fairly well structured code. Recently there was an Italian firm that was talking about picking up the loose ends and running with it, since it has languished in the last 2 or 3 years.

Pete