RE: ASP on AS/400

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark

from the outset CGI using RPG might seem like quite a learning curve but
once you've written the first couple it ought not be such an issue. Brad's
book will help if you don't intend to use the CGI Dev tool.

Most of the other things you need to learn (e.g. HTTP Server set up, HTML
formatting, javascript etc etc) will have to be learnt regardless of the
platform you deploy on.

My opinion is that if you don't already know this part of it,  the language
will probably represent the smallest part of the total learning experience.

If you can keep it all on one platform it ought to assist your project.

Hope this helps

Regards
Evan Harris

><snip>
>If you are trying to stay away from IIS I think you're probably ok with
>these tools and Apache on W2K, but I don't think you can really port you
>ASP
>to the iSereis w/o serious work. But then again, why would you want to?
>
>Basically because I know VB. I am not as of yet real fluent in Java. It
>looks like my best bet is to install IIS on one of my NT servers and use
>the CLient Access OLE/DB drivers to access my 400 Database. I know, I could
>use CGI written in RPG and I am exploring that as well but the learning
>curve still may not fall within my time constraints. Thanks sooo much for
>the input.
>
>Oh, BTW, these web applications will NOT be opened up to the Internet. Only
>our corporate Intranet.