Re: Tool to Modernize IBMi Screens into GUI

Hi Daniel,



there is nothing stopping you to have a stateful connection with a web client. Just use WebSocket as a transportation layer and build your own protocol on top of it. And you can still use any web framework you want for the presentation layer.



Best regards



Mihael

Am 01.01.2025 um 08:55, Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx> schrieb:


Hi Raul,


Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Am 01.01.2025 um 01:22 schrieb Raul Alberto Jager Weiler <raul.jager@xxxxxxxxx>:

Web and green screens are too different for a conversion tool to do a good job.

Yes - that's true, but this is not stopping vendors to offer somehow good solutions for that.

You can re use a lot of the logic from the old programs, but you need to
adjust to the fact that the web is "connectionless", so you must organize
your programs as receiving a request, do the job and finish.

This is the point - personally I don't think, that pressing everting into the web/http concept is a good idea.

It forces developers AND users to make compromises that you don't have with "real" clients or 5250.

So IMHO it about time to create a new paradigm - maybe a new protocol - which offers sessions/transaction control. So that when the connection is interrupted, the session drops and open transactions are automatically rolled back.

Regards,
Daniel
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