RE: ASNA VRPG for .net or Websmart or RPGsp or somethingelse?

Matt,

My answers in this thread have included a lot of
generalizations in response to the very broad question
about .Net or Websmart or RPGsp or something else.  

There are a lot of cases where people adopt a tool or
even a platform, hoping that it will address the
majority of their concerns, then later discover its
constraints.

There isn't anything wrong with planning and
discipline, which is probably in fact a key to
implementing Web interfaces successfully.

Nathan.


--- "Haas, Matt" <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nathan,
> 
> I don't think it's fair to compare auto-generated
> pages to something
> that was hand-coded. If you want big, you should
> have seen some of the
> HTML pages Microsoft Publisher spat out (Word's
> pretty good at making
> huge HTML too). There's probably a bunch of
> extraneous junk in those
> auto generated pages and plenty of things that
> should be externalized to
> allow for caching.
> 
> There's no arguing that HTML streams are going to be
> bigger than 5250
> streams but that has nothing to do with the
> technology generating the
> HTML. Also, if it were possible to do some of the
> things in 5250 that
> you can do with HTML (embed graphics, change fonts,
> etc...), don't you
> thing the stream size would increase dramatically as
> well?
> 
> What's wrong with planning and discipline? Isn't
> that the difference
> between coding and programming?
> 
> Matt
> 
> <snip>
> The last time I looked at HATS, which converts 5250
> screens into HTML, I seem to recall the average page
> size being about 50 Kb.  I've also worked with one
> .Net based tool named Revelation which generated an
> average page size over 100 Kb for database
> maintenance
> applications.  Wouldn't you agree that generating
> large HTML streams, particularly with Java, consumes
> significant resources?  Wouldn't you agree that it
> takes quite a bit of planning and discipline, or at
> least an additional framework to use JSPs properly? 
> Do you really think my CPU estimates are FUD, or
> would
> the fact that your pages are 5 Kb in size be more of
> a
> credit to your design?
> <snip>
> 



                
__________________________________ 
Discover Yahoo! 
Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! 
http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html