RE: GUI development language

Paul,

Heh, I thought you had said "check out our new look" so I went to the
website thinking it was maybe an example of a website running on a
System i. Whoops!

Just as an fyi for this thread, we're not looking to web-enable/face
current green-screen applications.


Kurt Anderson
Application Developer
Highsmith Inc

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Check out newlook at www.looksoftware.com Check out Joe Pluta's product
at plutabrothers.com

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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 07:47 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: GUI development language

Not to long ago, we decided to go to Visual Age RPG for new interface
development. However, we're reanalyzing the language decision though
we'd still like to go with a non-green-screen interface. So I have a
few questions.

1. Can anyone recommend any sites that compare the pros and cons of
Browser-based applications vs .exe type applications. Apparently my
web searching skills have failed me with this one.
2. Has anyone here had their company (or been involved with a
company) who switched "completely" away from green screen to some
other GUI format? If so, would you mind sharing the language(s) that

were used?

3. Like VARPG, PHP seems to have a limitation in calling System I
service program procedures in that the only value that can be returned

is 10i 0 (which sounds like it is based on the QZRUCLSP API). Is
there any word on this potentially changing so the return value
doesn't have to be an integer? We could develop our service programs
to return values in the parameters only, but we have a lot of existing

service programs that are using the return value.
4. It sounds like Java on the System i has had its speed improved
post v5r2. Is it night and day or is it negligible? Our website went

Windows after complaints of speed on our v5r2 box (we're v5r4 now).

Any input would be greatly appreciated (though I really hope this
doesn't devolve into [a] is better than [b]. ;)

Kurt Anderson
Application Developer
Highsmith Inc.
W5527 State Road 106, P.O. Box 800
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538-0800
TEL (920) 563-9571 FAX (920) 563-7395 EMAIL kjanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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