Re: Advice about moving to a Web-environment

["Greg Oziemkiewicz" <goziemki@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ewout,

If you would like to continue to code in RPG, take a look at the IceBreak
application server. I think it can't be beat for simplicity and flexibility.
You can download a trial version from http://icebreak.org.


On 12/12/06, Ewout N Boter <ewout.boter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I post this message because I would like to get some advice of other
> people who have made the transition from a traditional
> 5250/RPG-environment to a Web/Java-environment.
>
> At our shop, we are only developing 5250-applications. We use ILE RPG in
> the way ILE was intended for, i.e. we have created a lot of procedures to
> encapsulate business rules, we use service programs, activation groups,
> etcetera. Thus, we have adopted some of the modern features of ILE RPG,
> but we are still stuck with 5250-applications. We now want to make the
> transition to GUI- and/or Web-applications, but we don't know how to
> proceed. We have bought some books about using Java on the iSeries, one of
> us is doing a course on WebSphere Application Server, we have some
> thoughts about a Web-application we would like to build, but we are not
> feeling confident enough to really get going. Therefore, I would like to
> know how other shops have made the step to modernization. I think that we
> might learn a lot from the experience of others who have travelled along
> the way we have ahead of us. Any response would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Ewout
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