RE: GUI development language

We had the same thing Curt. Website move from iSeries to Windows because of
miserable Java performance (of course we think a big chunk of this was
software vendor related).

Chuck

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt Anderson
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:47 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