Re: Integrated Web Services server

That's what I figured. We've installed the demo for Bridge. Not bad,
but I was hoping not bring PHP into the mix if I don't have to. Not
that I have anything against it (I do plenty of hobby coding in it),
but we've standardized on Java for our web development language.
We're doing fine with it, and we even have some of our old RPG
programmers learning it (what's that saying about new tricks?).

I've actually done just this same thing with HATS, going through one
of IBM's labs. Talk about going around your elbow. I think we've all
seen that WebFacing and HATS are flops. The output is ugly, the
performance is lousy, and you can spend more time customizing your
results than it would take to rewrite your business logic to make it
callable.

It's the same old problem... we have tons of business logic in our
5250 programs. An easy, high performing way to turn them into web
services would let my Java developers create good looking applications
while leveraging our current assets. I'm not even looking for a
freebie; I'd be willing to pay a reasonable price for a tool that
works well. So far, Zend Bridge is really the only thing that fits
the bill. I suppose that if I can learn PHP, anyone can (including my
Java developers).

Thanks,
Mike E.


On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 28-Jun-08, at 10:35 AM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Anyone using this yet? Will it work on 5250 interactive programs, or
just batch?

Right now your best bet for turning a 5250 program into a web service
would be the Bridge feature of Zend Platform. I guess you might also
be able to use WebFacing since they use the same API, but I don't
think IBM's web service tooling directly supports 5250 apps - so you'd
have to create a web-faced app and the "break" it.

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com


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