Re: Feedback wanted on Net.Data, E-RPG and Java...

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frankly, the whole idea that you might not be able to do CGI in RPG
doesn't make sense to me.   All the web server does to handle CGI is
call a program and pipe the input to the program's "stdin", then expect
output (which, BTW doesnt have to be HTML, although it usually is) from
the program's stdout.   It doesn't (or at least SHOULDNT) care what type
of source code the program was compiled from!

Why reduce flexibility, and make the server more complex by making it
language-specific?  It does not make sense!

Frankly, if IBM did somehow/someway drop support for anything but
servlets, I promise you I'd immediately stop using my AS/400 as a web
server.   A UNIX-like  web server is ALREADY cheaper, more flexible, and
better supported than the AS/400.  The ONLY advantage to the AS/400 as a
web server for me is the ability to use my business logic thats already
written in RPG.


On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 dmosley@dancik.com wrote:

> Let me start off by saying that I am PRO Net.Data and E-RPG.
> 
> OK, my company just had an IBM rep come and give us a presentation on using
> Java Servlets, and other Java stuff.
> His suggestion was, obviously, to use only Java Servlets for any web
> oriented programs. My understanding of Servlets are that
> they generated HTML EXACTLY the way the E-RPG does.  So, I asked him why
> not simply use E-RPG.  His comment was that
> the concept of CGI in RPG won't last, and won't be supported by IBM in
> several years.  And then I asked about the use of Net.Data.
> On this, he also comment, that this use will quickly die out.  And that IBM
> will probably not supported it very soon.
> I'd just like to know if anyone knows anything about this.
> 
> Also, I was just wondering how an AS/400 would handle getting hits, from
> the web like, let's say an Excite.com, or Amazon.com would.
> I've only worked with companies that get very, very few hits a day.  But,
> how would handle getting several hundred or thousand hits an hour?
> 
> Thanks a bunch.    Long Live Brad Stone.
> Dave
> 
> ps. Just kidding Brad.
> 
> 
> David L. Mosley, Jr.
> System Analyst
> Dancik-On-Disk International, Ltd.
> 401 Harrison Oaks Blvd., Suite 101
> Cary, NC 27513
> 919-677-0005
> 

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