Re: IBM i 7.6 Development tools

Hello Daniel,

Am 23.04.2025 um 20:16 schrieb Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx>:

In fact HTTP is a terrible protocol for all kinds of business processes. The application servers have a lot to do, to provide a "simulation" of some kind of session - e.g. session tokens/ids and cookies.

Contrary to that, this paradigm was used by the so called pseudo-conversational transactions in CICS on the IBM Mainframe platform, such as MVS. An inherent "business" oriented platform, one could argue. :-)

But. 50 years ago, it was a measure to counter the ubiquitous resource shortage which was a huge cost contributor.

Today, the well-known anything over http — because any client has a browser — feels like abuse — what you tone down as "terrible protocol". :-) Initially it was used because it was there, browsers were there, writing HTML and simple CGI programs wasn't that hard, and worked good enough, overall. Writing real GUI applications was — is — hard and so the browser was abused more and more as an application frontend, just when text based command line for using a computer were perceived as being not user friendly, and alternatives were broadly available.

And over time, more and more features have been added to the browser, expanding it into a barely comprehensible feature monster.

Modern times, eh?

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