Re: No 5250-based applications

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Joel Fritz" <JFritz@sharperimage.com>


> We're using a browser based app (bulk e-mail) that we bought, right now.
> The name is unimportant.  It's a piece of junk because the database part
is
> poorly conceived and executed, but the user interface works pretty well.
It
> uses an app server (weblogic) and it has the Java Swing look and feel.
End
> users call it with the appropriate url and it takes over the browser
> completely hiding the browser itself.  It performs fine except for the
> database part.  The poor database performance has more to do with the bad
> design of the Oracle database that underlies the application than anything
> else.  We have an e-mail list that's a bit bigger than their average
> customer's. <g>


Is it a Java applet, or did they emulate the Swing look with graphics?

> Looks like proof of concept to me, although it's not a data entry app.  I
> think inquiry programs and  "executive" type applications that involve
more
> button pushing than typing will work well in a browser.  Data entry is
hard
> to do in any GUI.

That's what I keep hearing on this list, but I don't know why it would be
the case. It's easy to throw up a 5250 style GUI panel that let's you tab
between fields, responds to function keys, and uses the Enter key as a
submit. With a little bit of extra work, you could even emulate a Field Exit
key if you really wanted to. Conventional? No, but certainly possible.


John Taylor
Canada

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