Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400

Okay,

        I am currently working on a project with the Big M. T900 as the
mobile device.  The conversation will
be using Wireless Communication Transport Protocol  (See www.wctp.org for
links to this specification) and can extend to many others, if you
communication carrier will support it. Basically for the application
programmer it is XML and all you need is a good Parser library, we have
chosen an Open source one, along with a FreeBSD OS and PostgreSQL RDB for
this particular effort.  But, UDB/2 or DB2/400 with OS/400 &/OR Linux should
also fit the environment and run both Native or ............  ( What do we
call the Linux LPAR Partition. Semi-Native ??)

        Anyway,  This stuff is Bleeding Edge in many cases, and if you are
in the Medical Environment of course the building surrounding of the ER and
other functions will make most of it useless, just like the 2way radios of
the PD and EMS when they are in the building..

        Lastly, if this is a local in building application, look at the
802.11B solutions just now becoming available for the Palm platforms
combined with WCTP.

    Latter,
Jeffrey M. Silberberg
Independent Consultant
CompuDesigns, Inc.
Atlanta, GA.

PS: Lansa can show you much of this, as they used most of the technology in
the Wireless
Lab registration process they built last year and demonstrated/used at the
last two Common
conferences.

AS SOON AS I KNOW THE ANSWERS
THEY CHANGE THE QUESTIONS
----- Original Message -----
From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400


> Tim and I have different projects. His may be closer to
> what you had in mind. I've found that the communication
> part was extremely difficult to get to work.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brad Stone <brad@bvstools.com>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400
>
>
> > The communications part could be done that way.  Uploading
> > and downloading.  I didn't know it was an offline project.
> > But the synching part should be able to be done with
> > sockets, or the HTTP server acting as the socket program.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:39:19 -0500
> >  "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org> wrote:
> > > From: Brad Stone <brad@bvstools.com>
> > > > I just realized palms can probably use any HTML with a
> > > web
> > > > browser.  That is if you have a network connection with
> > > > them.  Should be very easy then if you don't mind using
> > > your
> > > > AS/400 as the web server.
> > >
> > > Brad,
> > > Please don't say this is EASY. It ain't. The standard
> > > Palm
> > > application has its own look and feel that is tailored to
> > > the
> > > capabilities of the platform. What people expect on the
> > > Palm is that within the application there would be a
> > > single
> > > button saying 'sync' or 'exchange data' or some such. You
> > > 'tap' the button and the transfer of data to/from the
> > > AS/400
> > > happens transparently. Anything else is not acceptable.
> > > How can HTML and a browser on the Palm help here?
> > >
>
>
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