RE: webfacing and competing products

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   7. Re: webfacing and competing products (trevor perry)
>
>First, "screen scraping". Our friend Joe slams products that are "screen
>scrapers" because they are not JSP. This term has really fallen behind in
>our new world of refacing. Screen scraping does not refer any more to
>reading a 5250 data stream, but it now includes any product that simply
>recreates the 5250 data stream in a new Windows-type frame - including HTML.
>If your product simply recreates the 24x80 (or 27x132) experience, then you
>have just "screen scraped".

It's been perhaps 10 years since I've actually done any "screen scraper" 
programming. So I guess I'm a bit behind the times. But if the term has indeed 
evolved to mean this, then much more has changed than I realized. This is the 
first time I've heard of this usage.

Perhaps vendors should publish glossaries of the terms they use.

Tom Liotta

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