Re: PHP and SQL web developer re-creates all businesslogic found in RPG programs

For example, we have a web service that converts word docs to PDF (it's a

front-end to openoffice)<<

Hi Walden;

Have you ported openoffice to your system i. In that case I'm all ears how
you did that;

I know openoffice can run in command line mode, so you are able to do all
kind of document conversions etc. I would like to make a native webservice
on system i that can do this trick;

Thanx


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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: 10. juli 2008 23:01
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] PHP and SQL web developer re-creates all businesslogic
found in RPG programs

For example, we have a web service that converts word docs to PDF (it's a

front-end to openoffice),

Interesting. I have the same thing, but it uses Microsoft Office. We
have run into a decent handful of issues with this approach
(especially since Microsoft specifically declares Office was not made
for mutlithreaded server type purposes). How complicated is the code
to integrate with OpenOffice? I wonder if it could be ported to the i
and run in headless mode?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Walden H. Leverich
<WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Furthermore, there are platforms that IBM doesn't make drivers for, and

web services would be useful there as well

Not only that, but there are operations for which we want a web service
that have nothing to do with a database. Yes, on i everything is "in"
the database, but from the average programmers point of view the
database is for data!

For example, we have a web service that converts word docs to PDF (it's
a front-end to openoffice), from the average programmer's point of view,
what the heck does that have to do with the database? Nothing. So why
would I access it via a stored proc.

-Walden

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