RE: Green screen to GUI

["Kyle S. Goodwin" <goodwink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why not write Java client applications that run in GUI on whatever your
client platform is for presentation layer only?  These apps can then talk
to WebSphere running on the iSeries where the actual processing would be
done, on the iSeries, just like it always has been.  I suppose if you want
to only write RPG and no Java on the iSeries then this isn't viable.  Is
it possible to use WebSphere to invoke RPG things and thus provide a glue
between the Java GUI and the backend RPG?

Kyle S. Goodwin
Extensicom LLC

michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> Find people that can code in it?
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: RE: Green screen to GUI
>> From: "Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, September 22, 2005 10:42 am
>> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I agree with your main thrust, but am unsure what you can do with other
>> Windows languages that you can not do with VARPG?
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> Booth Martin
>> http://www.martinvt.com
>> ---------------------------------
>> -------Original Message-------
>>
>> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
>> Date: 09/22/05 01:45:29
>> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
>> Subject: RE: Green screen to GUI
>>
>> > > It runs on the workstation.  You are correct of course, as
>> > always.  But with
>> > > rare exceptions, what iSeries workstation today is not Windows?
>> >
>> we are are running some desktops with linux here (debian) and are using
>> tn5250. worked out very good.
>>
>> > For the vast majority of Windows programmers, it doesn't make
>> > sense to
>> > learn RPG. They're already familiar with languages like C++,
>> > or VB. Or if
>> > they're more modern, they're working in languages like C# and
>> > Java.  Why
>> > would they want to convert to RPG?
>>
>> i fully agree with this. it simply doesn't make sense to switch to a
>> tool/language which can't do half the stuff you allready can do with the
>> tools/languages you have or know.
>>
>> i'm mostly programming java and for me VARPG is no option. too limited.
>> the
>> user knows what he can expect from a gui application because the see
>> things
>> in other products. and with VARPG you just can't do it. so why would i
>> want
>> to switch to VARPG. and i don't think that authorization and deployment
>> is
>> so easy. at our site we have hundreds of clients/users local and remote
>> and
>> i don't see a simple strategy for deployment. web applications are so
>> more
>> simpler to deploy.
>>
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