RE: Iseries: display form on screen AND button to print the form

> From: Stone, Joel
>
> What tools are available in the AS/400 world to accomplish these basic
> functions that I see in so many non-AS/400 web pages.

Any web page that can be served from a non-iSeries box can be served from an
iSeries box (with the possible exception of ASP pages).  That being said, if
you can create a nice form with buttons and lines in a browser, you can host
it from the iSeries.  The data can be posted to the iSeries to either an RPG
CGI program or a Java servlet - these are the same basic options as on any
other machine, with the exception that most Unix-based machines will use
Perl or Python rather than RPG, while Windows boxes will tend towards Visual
Basic.  That's part of the reason I like servlets - those are written in
Java on any of the above platforms.

Anyway, WebSphere provides all of the tools you need, from a web page
designer to a web application server. WebSphere Studio Development Client
has tools for web page design, JSP design, servlet design, everything you
need.  And the new WebSphere Express is a very reasonably priced web server.

Or, you could use any tools of your choice to write your own JSPs and
servlets and use Tomcat, which will run on the iSeries just fine.

Joe