Re: web page with data from two sources

It's been depreciated by W3C so no one is too keen on using something that may not be around for long

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 8:09 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] web page with data from two sources

Mike,

An iFrame would do that. You would just direct the source to your Java
servlet/RPG CGI program or whatever source of HTML (well, it doesn't
even need to be HTML) you want to display in the frame. The more
technical issues would be the authentication/session management side
since you would be working across two servers and security if you work
across more than one domain.

What's the objection/difficulty with iFrames so that "no one wants to
even talk about using iFrames"? Security concerns? Technical issues?

Pete Helgren


Mike Cunningham wrote:

We do all of our static web pages for our public site on IIS and use Dreamweaver to create them. We do all of our dynamic web sites from the iSeries. Our public site group would now like us to generate simple single pages (a list of employees for a department) and also multi-page apps (like a shopping cart app with multiple steps) imbedded inside their pages. So they control the header/footer and left navigation using Dreamweaver running on IIS and we produce the code for the content part of the page. We want to stay with writing java apps that run under Websphere on the iSeries and not need to also start developing asp code for IIS. I have never used them but I think iFrames would do what we want but no one wants to even talk about using iFrames at this point. We almost are wanting to build something that acts like a portal and the iSeries apps would just be portlets/webparts. Has anyone done anything like this?