Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

Actually the .NET team realizes this. I have been following several
developers (some inside MS) and Microsoft seems to be rapidly switching to a
jQuery-based AJAX system, especially with their MVC framework. I haven't
tried any other JavaScript framework, but you should be able to use whatever
you want for a framework. The problem comes from the first AJAX controls
they came out with they worked better in IE than other browsers. Once you
are set the older AJAX controls, it is harder to get out of them.

Here is my take on one language over another; use the best tool for the job.
If your primary web developer is using ASP.NET, your better to create all of
your intranet/internet apps is ASP.NET. However, that developer can pull
data from the iSeries either through database access, RPG programs, or
RPG-CGI programs of some sort.

Some things are so much easier to do in ASP.NET than it is in RPG and in
other cases it much more complicated. It is finding that right mix that
creates a successful product.

We just created an app were we wanted web access and green-screen access.
One developer wrote the back-end RPG and (with some guidance) created it
modular enough that I would write a ASP.NET-MVC front end and not have to
write a lick of business logic.

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me


On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron,

if you build a non browser based app to an iPhone, the server it adresses
dosn't have
to download any thing to the client, it only has to deliver data from a
service (controller/
model) if we are talking in terms of MVC) The "view" is already downloaded
as binary
into the device.

My comment on browsers was a way to say - MS can't take it for granted that
the
client in the other end is build by MS, their activeX and/or AJAX strategy
(that dosn't
meet W3C standards) is becomming more and more a rope around their neck and
with a increasing number of "browsers" on different devices build by
companies at
merely the same size as them self, they have to fall back to standards to
survive .

/henrik