Re: IceBreak as an alternative to Apache? -- WEB400

IceBreak does not support .NET

There is no Microsoft framework or software involved with IceBreak. IceBreak is a complete HTTP/Application Server built for the ILE languages on IBM i.

When Niels mentions ASP programs, they are RPG programs with an ASP extension. IceBreak supports any extension you want to use because the first line of the program tells the compiler which language it is.

Go to http://www.pnplogic.com/products/Overview.php and examine the Sample Programs and Getting Started Examples.

These programs have separate RPGLE, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript source files. Look at the first line of any program and it will tell you the language. The extension of the RPG programs is RPGLE and it runs as RPGLE in the browser. If I change the extension to .ASP with no code changes in the source program, it will still run exactly the same way as the .RPGLE example.

For some reason they use .ASP across the pond. As you can see from my examples, I do not subscribe to that technique.

Jim

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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Tue 1/4/2011 4:30 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] IceBreak as an alternative to Apache?

With the amount of confusion that comes with IceBreak's mention of it being
"like ASP", I wish they would discontinue the phrasing. It confused me when
Neils first described it. In the end it creates immediate debate that takes
away from discussing the cool features of the framework.

There's my $.02,
Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

My two cents:

The only way IceBreak or any other toolset could support ASP.Net would be
to run under the Microsoft .Net Framework stack and support Microsoft
Code-Behinds, Event Model, etc...

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date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 21:11:44 -0000
from: "Maurice O'Prey" <Maurice.Oprey@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Fwd: IceBreak as an alternative to Apache?

Henrik

Who is using fancy buzzwords, either IceBreak supports Microsoft ASP.NETpages or it doesn't (and from what I've read so far in these responses) it
doesn't?

Please stop mixing the term ASP with ASPX (they are completely different
technologies). The rest of the echo stuff is complete crap.

- Maurice O'Prey

Let me try to explain this without fancy buzzwords:

In Icebreak you place your sourcecode in an IFS files. This file looks and
behaves like an ASP or PHP page where you with a special syntax can switch
between server side code and client code (HTML etc.) so the sourcecode can
hold both.

What Icebreak does, is that it translate this IFS file to a RPGLE
sourcemember where all client code (HTML etc.) is imbedded in procedure call
like WrtNoSection('bla bla bla') in CGIDEV2 or echo('bla bla bla') in my
frame- work that both write the embedded client code into the HTTP output
buffer.

The smart thing is that you do not have to code ...

echo('<html>');
echo('<body>');
echo('hello world');
echo(</body>');

but can code large sections of client code like this

some rpgle serverside code
%> // start client code
<html>
<body>
hello world
</body>
<% // end client code
*inlr =on;

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