RE: Pros and Cons of the various RPG-CGI methodologies

Aaron,

fair enough - This application would be mostly inquiry / reporting type
stuff - enter parameters, display results, drill down to deeper levels,
provide links to other applications, outside servers, etc.   Dashboard /
Scorecard stuff.

strait SQL (via net.data) is insufficient for much of it - the back end
data is not organized properly for simple selects, joins, etc.   Most of
the data will have to be gathered from muttiple places, re-arranged and
re-formated before it's presentable - thus the need for CGI.

what I'm looking for are ease of use stuff - I can do the HTML stuff, but
how simple / hard is it to format template pages to be fed properly to the
apis, how well does the substitution, row/column, looping schemes each one
uses work in the real word, etc.

Thanks,

Rick
-----Original Message-----
It would be easier, in my mind, to give examples of how things are harder
or
easier based on some business requirements.  What kind of an app are you
looking at building?  Web Services? GUI web application?

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:26 PM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Pros and Cons of the various RPG-CGI methodologies


hey all,

I'd like to start a short discussion about the Pros and Cons of the various
shareware and/or open source RPG-CGI development libraries and other
methodologies available.   Specifically, CGIDEV2, Scott Klement's HTTPAPI,
Brad Stone's eRPG, and any other CGI helper that might be out there.

I've done several small web projects using the IBM supplied apis, and I'm
familiar with most of the concepts, and for my next project, I'd like it to
be a mixture of net.data and RPG-CGI - but I want to make my job easier
this time around by using one or some of these products, but I don't have
time to play around with each to see which I like best.

What do these various packages do well?
What could they be better at?
How was the learning curve,
Do they play well with websphere, net.data, other iseries web technologies?
Where can you store your html source?  IFS?  Source files? either?  If IFS,
must you use the C functions to read them?

Thanks,

Rick