Re: Reg: Suggestions Required for Web Services for IBMi

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Your question made me reflect on the mandate that Jeff Bezos gave to all
development teams at Amazon:

"All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through
service interfaces. There will be no other form of inter-process
communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's
data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only
communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network."

If your organization were to adopt such a mandate and web service
interfaces became fundamental to all applications, then language
environments and other architectural components would matter quite a bit.
But if on the other hand, the only thing your application does is to
convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, then who cares what language environments or
framework you use?


On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 4:04 PM Suren K <suren7437@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am planning to introduce Web Services for my IBMi application. I need
> some suggestion to choose which Web Services to go with.
>
> This web services which i am planning will be mainly focused for REST Based
> API Calls. Also i did a small POC in my application using Scott's YAJL tool
> using DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN for Parsing JSON Document into Data Structure
> and vice versa. So i am planning to use Scott's YAJL tool as well.
>
> Initially i thought of using IWS, but i could see the below two drawbacks
> with IWS
> 1) In Error Scenario the JSON body will not be sent back to Client
> 2) It Supports only 4 HTTP methods (GET, PUT, DELETE and POST) but as per
> my application requirement i need to use PATCH method as well.
> Do any one knows when IBM will fix the above two stuffs? If it is within 3
> or 6 months then i am very happy to use IWS as Web Services.
>
> The other options in my mind are
> 1) With Apache HTTP Server and using CGI method, call the RPG Program
> 2) Node.js
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Surender K
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