Re: Calling ILE from Java -- WDSCI-L

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What's going to make this really cool, though, is the availability of the IAS (the Integrated Application Server) running on an i5/OS blade server. In that configuration, you can basically plug in a business logic server that responds directly to HTTP requests - how the requests are formatted is up to you. They can be simple REST/JSON requests, web services, whatever.

Or, you install a web client that runs on the IAS and you've got a complete self-contained web app.

The more I think about this, actually, the cooler I think the concept is. In fact, what this becomes is a "business appliance". You plug it in, configure it, and now you have a business application. You can install thick clients on your desktop, or access it via a browser, or whatever. You can include plug-ins for other packages, Web 2.0 widgets for mashups, you name it.

And it all runs at light speed compared to today's applications that have layer upon layer (framework on top of script on top of interpreter on top of ODBC on top of database). This is simply convert ASCII-to-EBCDIC, call program, convert back.

Joe

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