Re: GreenScreen to Browser

At a prior employer the plan (never realized) was to split the backend off from 
the presentation layer.  Then Green-screen programs could call the backend 
logic and browser programs could call the same backend logic.  Are your 
applications in such a condition that this could be accomplished?  Or even make 
the backend logic be exported sub-procedures that could be called from an 
external browser program while the green-screen logic remains more or less 
as-is? 

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date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:01:14 -0700 (PDT)
from: Eduard Sluis <eduard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: GreenScreen to Browser (was ServicePrograms VS normal
        Programs).


Management here (me) want to change to a more modern user interface.
Management here (me) knows that we can do it with an RPG backend (Amongst 
others we make bankingtransactions websites).
Our flagship products are however 'still' GreenScreen.
They are large, fairly modern and very flexible applications.
We would like to give them a graphical interface.
We can do it with products like NewLook (very Ok screenscraper with lots of 
functionality).
But we would better like to make them browserbased.
We can not rewrite them.
We can not 'Yet' allow to change them in such a way they can not run anymore on 
greenscreen.
We can not allow to end up with two versions.
What are the real options/tools available to do this??
Mind.. No resources, No time.
Ok... a little time and some resources.

Kind regards,
Eduard Sluis.

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