Re: RPG and xml

Hi Henrik,

I look forward to having a look at your offering next week. We have been actively looking at possible contenders for an opensource RIA that we could use. We had looked at SmartGWT and Vaadin as a GWT-based RIA framework. We have SmartGWT examples working using a dynamic XML datasource (the XML being retrieved via AJAX calls). This would be the easiest way for us to integrate into our existing codebase as all of our JSP pages use dynamically built XML retrieved from the IBM ivia a custom tomcat-IBM i bridge. The XML is stored within a bean for the JSPs to use. As our tomcat-IBM i bridge talks pure XML we can discard tomcat and connect anything that builds from XML to the client side of the bridge - hence the search for a RIA that takes XML as a datasource.

This powerEXT Application Framework is certainly worth investing some time looking into. I do wonder if the dependence on CGIDEV2 means it works only with a HTTP server running on the IBM i. Would this be the case? Can this framework only run as CGI programs called within the IBM i HTTP server? Or is it possible to use this codebase to generate XML within a RPG program running independently of the HTTP server? Also, do you envisage this framework to only serve dynamic content or would it serve static content (HTML pages / images / icons stored in the IFS) too? Or would you imagine that kind of content being served from, say, an Apache HTTP server instance running on another (unix/Windows/Linux) machine and having the two work together?

Very interesting...

Cheers

Larry Ducie



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