Re: Tool to Modernize IBMi Screens into GUI

Agree here.

On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM Raul Alberto Jager Weiler <
raul.jager@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It is true, there is an option to create "persistent web connections" The
only problem is that the connectionless protocol works very well, is more
simple, and more efficient.

On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM mihael <mihael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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