Re: Web apps on the AS/400

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:
> However, I don't usually write thick-client code, my focus right now is on
> browser technology - that is, communicating via HTML with a browser.  And
> this does indeed run on the AS/400, quite well.  I have many applications
> written using a browser to communicate directly with AS/400 programs.  I
can
> take a green-screen application, and, by calling APIs instead of using
> screen I/O opcodes, I can communicate directly with a browser.  Or, I can
> write applications that communicate using data queues to business logic
> servers.  Either way, I have instant browser access to any of my business
> data, from any PC with a browser.

But what has that to do with Java?. I've seen RPG programs that do the same
"quite well". I've even proposed an MI program for doing this to a customer,
but he wanted it done in C. Not Java, not RPG, not MI. And somebody else
ran away with the job. I could have done in C as well, but you don't get all
the jobs you propose. Maybe I should have suggested Java to include an
automatic hype-factor. Ah well...


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