RE: TRYING undestanding new AS Iserv

[VWilliamson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I have been following this thread with much interest, as our company is
presently exploring what our options are in regard to making our on-line
programs "sexier" (as someone put it at COMMON) (Wonder if I'll get any
rejections with that word).  I attended our local user group meeting last
week to see a presentation by Mr. Joe Pluta of Plutabrothers.com called
"Using Java to Web-Enable Your Legacy Applications".   What he has come up
with is a way to use your on-line legacy program; everywhere there is
display file I/O, replace it with a call to a API.  Your screen format or
fields would be in a data structure which is passed as a parm to the API.
The API (here's where I hope I remember right) then loads the screen fields
into a Java bean.  An HTML program is then run which reads the Java bean
and outputs your screen fields to a browser.  That's it.  You now have your
screen in a browser type format and you haven't changed any of your
business logic.  It can even handle subfiles, error messages and error
subfiles.  And it runs in batch.

We are going to try to have Mr. Pluta come back and give a presentation to
our company IS department, so we can understand better what all is involved
in this method.

Needless to say I was very impressed in just a 2 1/2 hour user group
meeting.  You can go to metromidrange.com for more info and links to his
websites.

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