RE: [WEB400] ASNA VRPG for .net or Websmart or RPGsp or somethingelse?

["Haas, Matt" <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan,

I don't think it's fair to compare auto-generated pages to something
that was hand-coded. If you want big, you should have seen some of the
HTML pages Microsoft Publisher spat out (Word's pretty good at making
huge HTML too). There's probably a bunch of extraneous junk in those
auto generated pages and plenty of things that should be externalized to
allow for caching.

There's no arguing that HTML streams are going to be bigger than 5250
streams but that has nothing to do with the technology generating the
HTML. Also, if it were possible to do some of the things in 5250 that
you can do with HTML (embed graphics, change fonts, etc...), don't you
thing the stream size would increase dramatically as well?

What's wrong with planning and discipline? Isn't that the difference
between coding and programming?

Matt

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The last time I looked at HATS, which converts 5250
screens into HTML, I seem to recall the average page
size being about 50 Kb.  I've also worked with one
.Net based tool named Revelation which generated an
average page size over 100 Kb for database maintenance
applications.  Wouldn't you agree that generating
large HTML streams, particularly with Java, consumes
significant resources?  Wouldn't you agree that it
takes quite a bit of planning and discipline, or at
least an additional framework to use JSPs properly? 
Do you really think my CPU estimates are FUD, or would
the fact that your pages are 5 Kb in size be more of a
credit to your design?
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