Re: iPhone Rich UI

why don't both of you post some code examples and let us see them.
personally i haven't done any of this and it would be beneficial to me
since we *may* be working with web services soon. i would like to see
different methods of handling these so i can choose the best fit for my
company...

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
07/28/2008 08:45 PM
Subject:
Re: iPhone Rich UI



Aaron Bartell wrote:

That is the same as me saying you haven't taken the time to do the
equivalent in RPG or PHP. We will let this argument slip lower on the
priority list for now.

No, "we" won't do any such thing. You don't speak for me. I'm not
constantly calling you out - you call me out, I provide the answer, you
don't respond, except to issue yet another challenge, with you setting
all the rules. Sorry, not interested. Match what I just wrote in my
previous email, and then we can move on.

Good point, let's set the stage for how I see many web services working
these days. Note this is just my experience and I am sure everyone has
different opinions and experiences in this space.

Nope. Start with the basics. Do what I just did: invoke a REST service
and parse the TDs. Show us that code and we can move on. If you have
the willingness to do that, we can work our way through a whole series
of examples - that will be much more useful to the community than trying
to code some scenario your clients have.

In an effort to keep things in "real world complexities" we will take

the

XSD to repeating structures on both the request and response vs. doing
helloworld type services (i.e. header and detail type scenario).

"We" will do no such thing. You can either match what I just did or
not, I don't care. When I get time I may feel like creating a more
complex example, but certainly not if you won't even do the hello world
version. There are tons of perfectly useful transactions that don't
require repeating structures; no sense in starting there.

If you are willing to engage in such a comparison of EGL vs. Java. vs.

RPG

vs. PHP I will do the work of putting together the XSD and the web

service

to call.

Again, no real desire to try and match up to whatever you consider real
world until you do the basics. It will be far more demonstrative to the
community if we start with simple examples and work our way up. Mine
was about the simplest: get a web page and parse it. Do that and we can
move on to something else.

Your responsibility would be EGL and I can do the Java and RPG (we
would need a volunteer for PHP as I don't have a dev environment setup

for

that at the moment). The purpose of this is to see what is required of

each

language environment to invoke a common web service.

I already did do that. You haven't.

Let me know if you are game...

Again, I already did it. Feel free to show us your answer and we'll
move on.

Joe