RE: New GUI for green on black... -- JAVA400-L

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KJP,

Thanks for your answer.

TN5250j isn't really of any interest to me. For our customers if we're going
to do a thick client application I can assume that the user will have a 5250
emulator already, (normally Client Access).

os-ohio is of more interest, but the sourceforge site doesn't give any more
information - theres no homepage. Incidentaly, where does the info on OHIO
itself come from, I can't find any on the IBM website. What's the difference
(if any) between OHIO & HACL?

Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: KJ P [mailto:kjpou@hotmail.com]
Sent: 12 November 2001 13:23
To: java400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: New GUI for green on black...


Hello Chris

If you want control over the 5250 data stream there is a project on
sourceforge http://sourcforge.net/projects/os-ohio.  It is in java and does
not have an HTML interface but the html can be generated.

os-ohio is an Open Source implementation of the Open Host Interface Objects
for java from IBM.

You might want to give it a try but like I said it does create HTML but it
does fit the non expensive middle ware requirement.

As far as an in-expensive (Open Source) fat java client that can produce gui
screens you can try http://sourcforge.net/projects/tn5250j.  It has gotten
good response in the past couple of months for the gui parts.

Hope these help.

Regards

Kenneth

>From: "Price, Chris" <chris_price@nsb.co.uk>
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>Subject: New GUI for green on black...
>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:31:04 -0000
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>All,
>
>The top brass here have got this idea of putting a GUI menu in front of our
>existing GoB AS/400 application. The idea is fair enough - it gives the
>whole application a "fresh new face", whilst enabling us to slot in GUI
>functionallity piece-meal as we replace the GoB screens over time.
>
>I'm quite happy we could design a thick client GUI, in VB or Java, using a
>5250 emulator controlled by EHLLAPI.
>
>The problems start when I try to design a web based version. To the best of
>my knowledge, none of the "standard" 5250-to-HTML converters (Webfacing,
>WSG, iSeries Access for the Web) allow programatic control of the data
>stream, such as the emulator does.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestion on how to solve this problem? Can it be
>done
>without using expensive middleware products?
>
>Any comments gratefully received...
>
>Chris
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