Re: RPG as Web service

Hi Thorbjørn - gents.

We are still working on the IceBreak open ... the new community server is
almost ready to fly - it will be wide open on www.icebreak-open.com with
5250 / admin and develop - and we are moving the project to this server in
the days to come... however we have loads to do yet to make the site
automatic and professional for both contributors and clients.


The first open version is an experimental where all the administration,
component generator and application generators are shipped as open-source,
where you have to confirm the EULA before you can use it.

The core is not open yet due to our use of licence API from IBM which we are
not allowed to expose - we are using the same API that creates stored
procedure on the system i which are not public.

We need to hide the use of these or some how get and acceptance from IBM to
expose these - which I doubt ...

Until then: You can download the first open experimental version from:

http://demo.icebreak.org/webfiles/blueseries/IceBreakSetup0229.exe


.. you will have you WebServices up and running in no time


Regards

Niels Liisberg





-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Sent: 23. september 2008 09:06
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] RPG as Web service

Nathan Andelin skrev:

No offense to Shannon. I understand that the RPG example was simple on
purpose, in order to focus instead on the tooling available in WDSC.
But let me say that I'd personally prefer to see RPG in the driver seat.

Most webservices are http-based. Hence, you need to have a web server
to handle the communication, and that is as far as I know not easy to do
in RPG. There are lots in C so that should be doable and then link them
together. You also need the XML-handling and mere templating will not
do it unfortunately.

Did Icebreak get an Open Source release? I believe this is exactly what
they did.

/Thorbjørn