Re: Recommendations of web developmentarchitecture/toolfor diverse i5 access...

Aaron B wrote:
Have you built any RPG CGI frameworks that go beyond tools
likeCGIDEV2 and abstract the programming to a higher level?

Yes, I built an ILE framework, and many of the procedures are similar to those
in CGIDEV2. But unlike the CGI interface, instances of my Web applications are
launched (or stopped) by evoking a command from the command line, or through a
portal interface, which is quite a different paradigm.

Regarding your question about abstracting programming to a higher level, I take
it that your frame of reference is Microsoft's UI component library, or
comparable ones offered under the Java JSF specification. If so, my answer is
no.

My primary focus at the moment is building applications for the K-12 education
market.

I recognize that RPG isn't well suited to frameworks as Java or PHP
would be, but there are definitely things that could be done in that
vein to make it easier to program web apps from RPG.

I think you know better than that, Aaron. RPG is very well suited for building
components and frameworks, but the tendency of the RPG community is to WAIT for
IBM to build an OPCODE for rendering display files as HTML.

GUI desktop applications in RPG where 100% of the programming is
done in RPG and there is simply a thin "smart client" on the desktop
that renders whatever is sent to it.

Sounds interesting. And if the "smart client" were a browser, then this would
be the right forum for it.

Nathan.