Hi Suren
We use CGI for serving Web services for years and years. It is very stable and reliable, but not extremely scalable.
We have generic RPG CGI programs running behind Apache HTTP with Net.Data in the back-end (started with that well before PHP became available on IBM i) Net.Data then calls the (SQL)RPGLE back-end application program and transforms data into JSON.
As said, stable, reliable and it's easy to maintain , especially in our SAAS-environment with multiple customers on different versions with a wide range of customization. That's because (almost) everything lives in libraries and is thus managable via the LIBL.
However, it does not live up to the current standards with respect to scalability and non functionals such as authorization and so on and with the NetData part we run into unicode issues every now and then.
I wouldn't choose for this approach when starting right now. I took a look at ILEastic for new development, but PHP is also a good option.
Kind regards,
Martijn van Breden
lead software architect
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Hi All,
Exploring the web services in IBMi using the HTTP Server with CGI Call
Method.
Anyone's comments on UPs and DOWNs will be very much appreciated.
Regards,
Suren
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