RE: Web Interfacing Advantages?

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Under this category -- "front end your RPG apps" --
> comes a big element that deserves serious attention
> for OSG RPGers: procedural vs. event-driven. Trying
> to replace the green-screen I/O with a web (or other
> GUI) interface might not make sense; the RPG app
> itself might need to be redesigned from the database
> up.

That's a good point Tom, if the context is
front-ending an RPG program with a Microsoft server. 
But some old RPGers might argue that the traditional
workstation metaphor is an "event" oriented interface
that does offer separation between "screen" and
"database" I/O.  

Consider the following example of an RPG based Web
interface, that I've been playing with.  The idea is
to generate a special [browser] device file from an
HTML file, similar to generating a workstation *DSPF
from DDS.

http://www.relational-data.com/ascent/xur121.html

Nathan Andelin



                
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