RE: Beyond RPG CGI

Our company is doing something very similar.  We have eRPG apps written that
run like a top, but we are trying to move in the direction of interface
separation from business logic.  In doing so we are planning to use RPG on
the backend to do all of the business logic in modules.  We are also
planning on writing RPG modules to do all of our data access.  Now we can
build a front end with anything we want (eRPG-cgidev2, ASP, JSP, net.yuck,
etc)and the person building it doesn't really have to know a lot about the
backend business logic, they just need to know which modules to call.

There are many tools to get the job done.  If your shop is doing good at
eRPG and the CGIDEV2 stuff, then I would suggest you stay that way.  But if
you have some people willing to learn some thing new, like Java Servlets,
then I say give it a try.  You had better put a lot more research and
learning into the budget though(IMO).  The switch from RPG to Java is a bear
if you haven't had any previous OO type languages;-)

Aaron Bartell



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From: Mike Skvarenina [mailto:mskvarenina@usa.net]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 8:45 AM
To: web400@midrange.com
Subject: [WEB400] Beyond RPG CGI


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I hope this isn't a mistake to ask this (fearing many different answers and
opinions) but here it goes:

My shop has been doing RPG CGI development for about a year now.  We started
off with Brad Stone's book to get our feet wet then discovered CGIDEV2 which
made the development process very simple.  Management however, although very
impressed with our browser interfaces (they hated the green screen dubbing
it "old technology"), still believes RPG is dead and is insistant we move
away from RPG in general...even if it can 'work the web'.

So my question is, what is your shop doing beyond RPG CGI?  One area I am
seriously considering is firing up our WebSphere server and learning to use
it and Java.  If this is the right direction, what's the best way for a
staff of RPG programmers to get started?
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