RE: alternative to WebFacing

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jt wrote:

I think this could be a direct application and one of the biggest benefits
of the iNation.  What would it take to eliminate the interactive penalty?  I
think it would require:

that people quit wasting time complaining about it
some brains volunteered to work out the details
someone to lead the charge
some computer time
some way of providing long-term support
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jt, this part is already done, at least for relatively simple display files.
I've written a tool that will analyze your RPG and DDS and replace the
screen I/O with a call to an API.  Boom.  In one step, I have unbound the
business logic and the API. I suppose you could also use this to modify the
code to communicate with a SPECIAL file, but there are obstacles there - how
do you return all the indicators, including the command key indicators?

Anyway, the issue is not whether it can be done - I've already done it.  And
I "wrote the book on it", with my eDeployment book.  My programs run quite
happily on a 0CPW model 270, and they're quite fast.  I'm working on
automatically generating JSPs and thick clients and XML wrappers, but that's
really fluff.  The hard part is done.

So now what?

Joe




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