RE: 5250-to-HTML servlet?

["Price, Chris" <chris_price@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Next, if there are such APIs, then Seagull must be TICKED OFF.  Had they
known, they would not have had to write the XCaliber product, which is
intrusive.  The amount of work required to actually modify a program's
source is quite extensive, and if they had had access to the APIs you
mention, they wouldn't have had to do it.  They are now heavily invested in
that strategy, and I don't know whether they'll be willing to throw it away.
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Joe,

Since IBM have only just announced that Webfacing can run with the
interactive tax, and since it only applies to V5R2 machines, surely Seagull
still have a massive potential customer base for a product like XCaliber?
Even if they have to write something else to make use of this theoretical
API for the newer machines, I can't see them, and companys like them, not
wanting to.

I'd argue that since IBM is going to be giving little choice on the new
hardware (all interactive you want or none) there is a very strong need for
this API to be available, not just to BP's, but publically.

Chris.