RE: [WEB400] Pros and Cons of the various RPG-CGI methodologies

["Flaker, Jeff" <JFlaker@xxxxxxx>]

Rick,
Re: CGIDEV2
Aside from having to design/build HTML screens-->There are apps out
there that will do this, as in websphere, We have converted a green
screen app directly to CGIDEV2 (html was manually designed in FrontPage
because we wanted a new feel).

If the program is written properly..it is just a matter of changing
variable moves/evals into api callp's to update variable HTML elements
and the program timing.  All we had to do is change the mainline of the
program to get out after processing instead of looping as it does for a
screen.

A pro of CGIDEV2 is the price!  Also, since the job runs in a BCI job,
the load on the system can be reduced.

Jeffrey Flaker
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Linens 'N Things
6 Brighton Rd
Clifton, NJ  07015
Phone:   973-249-4384
Fax:     973-249-4901
http://www.lnt.com


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:34 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: [WEB400] Pros and Cons of the various RPG-CGI methodologies


It would be easier, in my mind, to give examples of how things are
harder or easier based on some business requirements.  What kind of an
app are you looking at building?  Web Services? GUI web application?

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:26 PM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Pros and Cons of the various RPG-CGI methodologies


hey all,

I'd like to start a short discussion about the Pros and Cons of the
various shareware and/or open source RPG-CGI development libraries and
other
methodologies available.   Specifically, CGIDEV2, Scott Klement's
HTTPAPI,
Brad Stone's eRPG, and any other CGI helper that might be out there.

I've done several small web projects using the IBM supplied apis, and
I'm familiar with most of the concepts, and for my next project, I'd
like it to be a mixture of net.data and RPG-CGI - but I want to make my
job easier this time around by using one or some of these products, but
I don't have time to play around with each to see which I like best.

What do these various packages do well?
What could they be better at?
How was the learning curve,
Do they play well with websphere, net.data, other iseries web
technologies? Where can you store your html source?  IFS?  Source files?
either?  If IFS, must you use the C functions to read them?

Thanks,

Rick


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