RE: Web apps on the AS/400

At 15:07 03/20/2001, Ken Slaugh wrote:

>How about a real AS/400 application... Our reservation system here at CMI
>involves RPG programs which reference no less than 40 database files. If I
>had to count them it would probably me closer to 80+. This application is
>by no means different than many AS/400 apps. Take a look at the open data
>paths on a JDE app.
>
>In any case, do you expect XML to maintain a connection to such a set of
>database files? At what cost?

It's not really a "connection" that's relevant. View XML as a document, not 
a data path. You produce XML much as you might produce an export file. It's 
really the same concept. It's just that the document is self describing and 
can contain data element relationships in addition to data. The recipient 
can process that data, and include (related or not) data from other XML 
documents to construct views, aggregates and lots of other neat stuff.


Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/

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