RE: WEB SOLUTIONS SOFTWARE -- MIDRANGE-L

Jo how much Net.Data have you done? I assure you advantages in Net.Data far
outweigh using RPG CGI scripts. You say not Data uses SQL all the time and
its SQL syntax is different. Not true you have the capability to use Direct
Execution to call existing RPG code as it says direct, you can use the
system environment to call CL or system commands which can again call RPG.
The SQL is perfect SQL no difference that I have ever noticed it uses the
same SQL_CLI that the AS/400 is using through green screen. In V440 you can
direct call Java programs you have a REX interface and at the same time you
are provided with all sorts of functions including working with Cookies, an
SENDMAIL function math, string functions and many more.

Then the best thing is you work with Net.Data within your HTML editor such
as Homesite or SiteBoss which is an actual Net.Data editor. Slowness not
really V440 will see macro caching in the near future and the work we do in
N.D is just as fast as CGI scripting. But the best thing is development time
is cut down by a huge extent, an awful lot quicker than coding RPG CGI's.

Thanks
Bleddyn

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Joe Teff
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 02:17
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: WEB SOLUTIONS SOFTWARE


There were two articles written in News/400 a couple of years
ago (I beleive the author was Ed Smith) and Brad Stone wrote
a couple last year in Midrange Computing. There is also a Red
book called "Cool things about the AS/400" or something like
that. This is how I learned. The programs work fast. There are
about 5 APIs that are needed for this. I have them coded in a
Service Program with easy to use procedures (thanks to Brad).
Other developers now use the procedures without having to
understand the APIs. I personally don't understand the claim
that Net.Data is easier to do. I think writing the CGIs in RPG
is easier. You will have to know HTML in either case. Net.Data
uses SQL for all database access (syntax is slightly different
than regular SQL). You also have to learn how to write
Net.Data macros. I did not find this to be intuitive. Net.Data
is the obvious choice when you do not know RPG IV. Net.Data
is also slower than using an actual CGI script (a CGI program
is not some new language, rather it is the way that you write
the program to work with a browser on the other end and HTTP).

Joe Teff

----- Original Message -----
From: Colin Williams <Williamsc@technocrats.co.uk>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 3:54 AM
Subject: RE: WEB SOLUTIONS SOFTWARE


>Bradley,
>
>Where is the best place to start on learning how to use RPG as CGI?
>
>Thanks, in advance
>
>Colin.W
>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Stone, Brad V (TC OASIS) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 10:15 PM
>>>> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
>>>> Subject: RE: WEB SOLUTIONS SOFTWARE
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> RPG as CGI!!!
>>>>
>>>> Bradley V. Stone
>>>> BVS/Tools
>>>> http://www.bvstools.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>> > From: Archie Cameron [mailto:AGCAMER@mailhost.polarisind.com]
>>>> > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 2:11 PM
>>>> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>>>> > Subject: WEB SOLUTIONS SOFTWARE
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Hey again,  I have been given the task of hunting down a
>>>> good intranet
>>>> > web solutions software package.  I am curious what this
>>>> group has to
>>>> > offer.  I hope this is not too far off the stream of this forum.
>>>> > I need to find THE tool that will get us from Development to
>>>> > Implementation
>>>> > to Administration.  I was instructed to find a tool that took
>>>> > us from the
>>>> > cradle to grave.
>>>> > Our RPG programmers are  doing some Java Programming
>>>> with JBuilder
>>>> > as the IDE and jdk1.1.6. so a tool that utilizes JSP
>>>> would seemto be
>>>> > preferrable.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks in advance
>>>> > Arch
>>>> >
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