RE: RPG and Web.. (was Using OO concepts in RPG)

Joe - Dig into Dreamweaver.  When you get a bit of a grasp on it you'll love 
it.  I do eRPG for 'entertainment' purposes only, but I think I've followed a 
natural progression of learning it.  I also do websites on the side, so that's 
sped up the Dreamweaver learning. 

I followed a lot of Brad's examples from his book and open source sites and 
originally built everything inside of an RPGIV program.  Even as far as loading 
the HTML code into an array at the bottom ... ugly.  Now I'm building pages in 
Dreamweaver, add all the JavaScript you want through their behaviors, and 
loading it into physical files.  I place special tags in the HTML for things 
like ###SELECTION_BOX### and all that good stuff.  Next I'll have to move onto 
the IFS I guess!  

Like you said, you can do all the logic in your RPGLE program and use the HTML 
like your display file.


-----Original Message-----
From: Joep Beckeringh [mailto:joep.beckeringh@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 3:21 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: RPG and Web.. (was Using OO concepts in RPG)


> Good points. But also consider the economics for the 2nd

Did you learn Java yet? IBM says it has to be all Java now.

> or 3rd or

Need some time to get WAS up and running (and performing).

> 4th project

Sorry, busy right now getting to grips with Dreamweaver for editing my JSPs.
Oh, and how is the Webfacing project doing? HATS, what is that? Forget all
that, Hans 'Monty' Boldt says it has to be done in Python now.

Programmers who start building web applications have to know about HTML,
HTTP, probably JavaScript and SQL. They are probably the ones that have to
get the HTTP server up and running, learn to configure the darn thing. And
then along comes Bradley and not only tells you, but shows you that most
programming can be done in good old RPG. Sort of being dropped in a foreign
country, strange food, weird clothes, unknown social structure, but,
halleluja!, they understand English (Dutch would be fine as well :-)). The
local language may be a much better choice for proper communication with the
locals, but I'll get to that when I am comfortable with the other things.

Joep Beckeringh


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