Re: Advice about moving to a Web-environment

Ewout,

I was facing the same situation about 2 years ago.  I found a wonderful
product called "WebSmart" from BCD software.  I encourage you to visit
http://www.bcdsoftware.com/index.htm?parm=excel to check out their products.

In addition to WebSmart we also use Nexus, Catapult, SmartCharts and
Ez-Pickens.  All these products have solved a number of issues for us.

My background was mainly 5250 RPG applications.  I had done a few RPGILE
programs but nothing to the extent that you have.

WebSmart uses a GUI to create code called PML.  PML is a lot like RPG.  Next
the PML is converted to RPGILE code that serves web pages.

My first project was to create a B2B Website.  I developed the entire
website by myself using WebSmart.  It was amazing how fast I was able to do
this.  Now our customers can inquire about order status, place orders, check
inventory and review accounting information.

The order entry process is so easy that our own order entry department has
abandoned the 5250 version for the new web interface.

If you would like to contact me I would be more than happy to give you a
demonstration.

Regards,


Larry Haynes
Noritake Co., Inc.
haynes.mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx
(513) 771-5655 x118





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Behalf Of Ewout N Boter
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 5:35 AM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Advice about moving to a Web-environment


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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