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Brad, the basic APIs for screen scraping are all pretty similar, AFAIK.  The
best place to find them are from 5250 emulation vendors.  Among them:

Glink for Java
Red Oak Software
Attachmate
Mochasoft
Rumba
OpenConnect

Also, IBM has its own set of APIs called HACL, the Host Access Class
Library.

Joe


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Jensen
> Subject: screen scraping
>
> We do an imaging package on the PC that works with the AS/400.
> SOme of our users want screen scraping to either load the image
> database, or lookup images tied to a regular 5250 screen.
>
> I know there are lots of emulators out there, and that some of
> them at least have an API for doing the screen scraping functions.
> My questions are
>
> which emulators are the most popular?
>
> (Cleint Access, Rumba, etc.)
>
> do other emulators mimic the Client Access APIs, or do they all
> have their own functionality and structure.
>
> Thanks.



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