Re: What do I use?

[Paul Raulerson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rory. Drop me a call sometime at the office please - (512)  
837-7100.  I am not sure it will be something we can immediately use  
but I am interested.
Do you by any chance have a 3270 version?

-Paul

On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

> Paul,
>
> Just an FYI - I'm the lead developer on the team that built the Web  
> Option
> tool that Crispin uses. If you'd like to see a demo of it in  
> action, just
> let me know and I can get someone to discuss this with you.
>
> As Crispin says, it uses neither Websphere (which I agree is  
> expensive and a
> bear to set up) nor JSP's - it's just pure HTML plus JavaScript and  
> CSS. At
> a basic level, it can function as a simple screen-scraper (with easily
> sub-second performance), but it can be used to provide much richer
> functionality than the underlying green-screen application (which  
> doesn't
> need to be changed or even recompiled). Yes, it uses interactive  
> CPW, but
> we've found this just isn't a huge issue for our customers - it's  
> typically
> either being used as a direct replacement for green-screen (so  
> there's no
> loss or gain either way) or is being used by companies who want to  
> open up
> their applications to the internet, where the temporary hit of someone
> logging in, ordering something and logging off isn't a problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rory
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