Re: Web Enabling Applications

I'm not saying to change your database or language where your business logic resides. I can’t think of a good reason that you ever want to do that. I'm referring only to the web server. Sorry if I was not clear enough on that point.

Thanks,
Todd


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Henrik Rützou
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 5:58 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] 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-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
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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