[WEB400] Re: Modify the IE Browser

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan M. Andelin wrote:
> > From: "Hans Boldt" <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > "Webifying" a tradional green-screen app (using
> > whatever tool) may well give it a few more years
> > of life. But in my (perhaps  jaded and cynical)
> > opinion, it's only delaying the inevitable.
>
>
> The flip side is that so many software rewrite efforts have failed!
>
> I'm working with folks who are taking an incremental approach.  While
> retaining the iSeries database, queries, reports, statements, and many batch
> procedures, many of the 5250 programs will be replaced incrementally.
>
> A menu system consisting of more than a thousand menu items will be
> converted to a tree structured HTML interface that may activate and bring
> forward either a character mode 5250 panel, a HTML panel, or possibly some
> other UI option, depending on the circumstance.  The browser offers an
> environment for integrating multiple types of user interfaces, while
> enabling swapping between them.
>
> The idea is to integrate old and new, while incrementally replacing parts
> that would be better served by graphical point and click scrollable pages.

Incremental rewrite is a good approach. Certainly a heck of a lot 
better than sitting on your hands and hoping a more productive 
competitor doesn't enter the arena.

Also don't forget that in any rewriting or restructuring effort, 
there's one important company asset that doesn't have to change at 
all - the test suite.

Cheers! Hans