RE: Web apps on the AS/400

["Schenck, Don" <Don.Schenck@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe --

So ... your "Application" is what -- in OO talk -- is known as a "Controller
Class".

Farm out!

-- Don Schenck
   Schenck Technical Consulting
   DonS@SchenckTech.com / www.SchenckTech.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@plutabrothers.com]
> Sent: March 15, 2001 4:41 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Web apps on the AS/400
> 
> 
> Nothing mysterious about it.  The application layer serves as 
> the "controller" of the traditional Model-View-Controller 
> design.  The application instantiates and initializes the 
> appropriate server and send an initial request.  It analyzes 
> the response, formats the appropriate data models, and then 
> displays the corresponding JavaServer Page.  The JSP in turn 
> materializes the views of the data models and presents them 
> to the user.  The user enters their response, which is sent 
> back to the application.  The application then reverses the 
> process, taking the data from the user and putting it back 
> into the data models.  Based on the user response, the 
> application determines the next course of action: either 
> assemble another request for the server, or transfer to 
> another application.
> 
> And so it goes.
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
> Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:13:29 -0600
> 
> real nice Joe, but tell me what is this mysterious 
> "application layer".
> The two other layers I understand, but "Application" as a layer?
> 
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