RE: Convert EXFMT to API

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, we've finished the first version of the tool, Buck, and Linoma Software
and Pluta Brothers Design will be issuing a press release and all that good
stuff shortly.  The Envoy product is a packaged version of my PSC400
conversion tool, while the Ambassador product allows for development of true
client/server applications.  You use Envoy to get your existing systems to
the web, then use Ambassador to develop new applications.  We've got acouple
of betas going right now, and they look REALLY good.

All programs run in batch, so there's no interactive load on the processor.
It's really an elegant solution - you can do your enhancement in stages, and
each stage builds on the work done in the previous one.

Joe Pluta
weww.plutabrothers.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buck Calabro
>
> >Over a year ago, Mike Cravitz (News/400 RPG guru)
> >posted the question something to the effect:  is
> >there some easy way to change an EXFMT to an
> >API call that allows client/server programming
> >and/or web programming?
>
> I think Joe Pluta has a finished tool that does this, and IBM's WebFacing
> does this under the covers, so there's no AS/400 compile involved.  Nathan
> Andelin has a different approach as do Brad Stone and Bob Cancilla.
>
> There's no silver bullet - WebFacing wants a new CPU and everything else
> requires programming changes.  It's up to each installation to figure out
> what will be in their best interest.