RPG CGI programming framework (was NT vs AS/400)

[Mel Rothman <mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan, the "framework that makes a Web interface as easy to write and
maintainable as a
5250 screen" exists.  It is the CGIDEV2 library, downloadable for free
from IBM Italy's
easy400 web site: http://www.easy400.ibm.it.



Mel Rothman
IBM iSeries Custom Technology Center
Rochester, Minnesota


"Nathan M. Andelin" wrote:

...snip 
 
> I previously considered the lack of a GUI to be a major RPG handicap.  I was
> explaining this to one of my non-technical coleagues and suggested that he
> might be interested in learning Visual Basic.  Ironically both of us were
> working on a Web based Reservation System for the hotel I mentioned in the
> example above.  He was representing the user group that sponsored the
> system.  I was using CGI at the time.  He looked at the browser and said.
> Well, isn't that an RPG GUI?
> 
> I don't know for sure whether RPG has been dying, or not.  One thing I do
> know is that Web technologies, and a browser based GUI, have the potential
> of breathing new life into RPG.  It makes sense to move more function back
> to the server rather than out to the client.  The trick is to come up with a
> framework that makes a Web interface as easy to write and maintainable as a
> 5250 screen.
> 
> Nathan.
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