Re: Web Enabling Applications

Todd,

if your legacy code and application runs in RPG and if your DB is made in
DDS why on earth not stay in that environment in stead of beginning to
complicate things by learning another server side language - if you move to
another platform you would have to "say goodbye" to all the legacy code
anyway.

Extend your skills in the new WEB 2.0 arena that is basically OO javascript
and UI client frameworks and don't waste your time in trying to make a
"strategic" server language change on the server if the functionallity is
already there in well known territory - to reach the moon dosn't require
technology that is able to reach any star in the galaxcy.




On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Allen, Todd
<Todd.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

That's great to have this functionality available. Admittedly, there is
more than I was aware of. However, we're talking about RPG expertise
required to handle the server-side component of your web application. That
is where I would be careful about my decision to use RPG for that part of
it. This may sound like blasphemy, especially since I wrote RPG code many
years back, but I think businesses must keep an eye to the future in these
cases.

There are many factors that go into that and every shop is different so
that may make the decision a foregone conclusion. If I am thinking long
term then I am very hesitant to invest heavily in RPG for the web
server-side language. I would never advocate changing the back-end
business logic but there are too many other options out there to go with
CGIDEV2 blindly just because your business logic is written in RPG. You
are limiting your future resource pool by putting all your server side web
scripting in RPG.

Thanks,
Todd


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Henrik Rützou
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 5:27 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web Enabling Applications

Todd,

there is a lot of available functionallity available if you look around,
just take Scott Klement's implementation of Apache POI that is a Java Class
that enables you to write binary MS XLS - we do run in an ILE environment
which is one of the great forces of IBM I


On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Allen, Todd
<Todd.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Thanks for that. I did not know JSON functionality was readily
available in RPG. Color me (pleasantly) surprised.

Thanks,
Todd


-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 5:14 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web Enabling Applications

JSON in RPG: http://rpgnextgen.com/index.php?content=json

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Allen, Todd
<Todd.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

The only potential hitch there is generating the JSON data in the
HTTP response with RPG. I know there is JSON functionality that is
readily available in most web development languages. I don't know
if there is a good option for dealing with JSON data in RPG.
Rolling your own JSON library in RPG is not something I'd relish doing.

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