Many thanks Luis. I responded to Michael off-line and offered to demonstrate examples of RPG Web applications that utilize jQuery/JSON, and AJAX that run on the IceBreak Application IBM i Server. There are several ways to write RPG Web applications for IceBreak. The beauty of IceBreak is that it is a powerful engine that support all of the ILE language as scripting languages. If you go to the system-method.com site, don't spend much time with the aspx stuff. In Denmark, they do things differently there and most people I talk with in North America find it confusing. My examples take am IBM i / RPG MVC approach. When I do my User Group workshops, I used RPG in a way that all RPG programmers can understand. There is very little to learn from the RPG standpoint. What you want to do is create user-based applications with HTML5/jQuery and make AJAX calls back to the server for JSON data. You just want to return JSON data from the RPG programs.
I suggested to Michael that he use the IceBreak Community edition, which is free, to develop his applications and launch them in production on an IceBreak Server (run-time license) which is very reasonable.
Jim (Vendor)
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System & Method International (North America) Inc.
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Luis Rodriguez [luisro58@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 12:29 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web Enabling Applications
Michael.
Some time ago I "played" with a product called Icebreak (
http://www.system-method.com/IceBreak) . I found it a very interesting
product, really easy to program. They have a Community ("free") edition.
Unfortunately, several other projects and a very limited i5 haven't allowed
me to explore the framework further.
Regards,
Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok...wide ranging topic I'm sure, but it's Friday. Here's what I'm looking
for...opinions, solutions, ideas regarding web enabling (browser access) to
i applications. A couple of points: The logic on the i will be written
(re-written) to be accessed by a procedure call. I'm pretty sure I want the
returned data to be in JSON format. I'm obviously concerned about security
and session state. This application would be for in-house users, not the
public.
I'm thinking three main middleware paths - PHP, CGI, and vendor
proprietary...others?
Some products/frameworks that I know of are easy CGIDEV2, Renaissance,
Zend, powerEXT..others?
Feel free to contact me off list if desired. I look forward to the
comments.
Thanks!
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