Re: Looking for Advice/Suggestions

I would second ILEastic.

Nice way to create HTTP app servers in RPG !!

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phn: (612) 315-1745

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date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 18:43:33 +0100
from: Niels Liisberg <nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Looking for Advice/Suggestions

Also take a look at the ILEastic project - it is open source, free and used in many projects now.

https://github.com/sitemule/ILEastic

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However If you just want to to bring the 5250 into your application, you can do it with my product IceCap - that is not open source.
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 5:41 PM Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

One thought that might be relatively bite-sized....

You can do a plain old HTML mockup of your app if you use the
Bootstrap HTML framework.

https://getbootstrap.com/

Bootstrap turns plain old HTML in to eye candy without needing much/if
any Javascript knowledge.

You can test your HTML app by opening the HTML in your browser to view
from a directory on your desktop or from Apache or another HTTP web server.

Build a little plain old HTML Bootstrap prototype that looks good and
then you can replace the data that needs to be dynamic by using
RPG/CGI and re-using some of your existing logic, PHP, Python or
whatever else for the web bits.

Auto-refreshing dashboards are a great use for the Bootstrap HTML
framework because you can do most of it with some simple HTML tables
or other replace tags in the template.

I call them poor-man's dashboards.

What I often do is create an HTML file template with some placeholders
for table data or other data so I can just replace those tags
real-time with an app that runs periodically (every few
minutes/seconds or nightly). And with an HTML refresh tag in the
simple web page it looks like it's a fancy auto-refreshing app on the big screens.

Viola - Instant dashboard.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phn: (612) 315-1745