Re: Advice about moving to a Web-environment

["Bill Meecham" <meechamw@xxxxxxx>]

this is more advertising than advice.  hope the web400 moderator is seeing 
this.  




----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Niels Liisberg 
  To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries' 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:16 PM
  Subject: Re: [WEB400] Advice about moving to a Web-environment


  Hi Ewout;

  It sounds like you have made a good job with ILE and encapsulation your
  business logic into service programs. If that is the case you must take a
  look at http://IceBreak.org and see how you can create WebServices in a snap
  with ILE'rpg. Also, it will be no problem for you to create a new html / xml
  based user interface by using your already made service program /
  procedures.

  Only thing you requires is to add "Input" / "Output" or "InOut" keywords on
  your procedure interface and set the pgmtype="webservice" and you are ready
  to rock ....


  webSerice.asmx

  [code] 

  ----------------
  <%@ language="RPGLE" pgmtype="webservice" %>
  <%    
  h nomain     
   
  p*name++++++++++..b...................keywords++++++++++++++++++++++++++comm
  ents++++++++++++ 
  p Calculator      B                   export 

  d Calculator      pi
  d    x                          10i 0 Input         
  d    y                          10i 0 Input
  d    z                          10i 0 Output 

  /free
   
    z = x + y; 
   
  /end-free   
  p Calculator      E
  %>
  ---------------- 


  Best regards


  Niels Liisberg
  IceBreak Chief SW Architect

  System & Metode Technologies
  Håndværkersvinget 8, DK-2970 Hørsholm
  Phone: +45 70 20 36 10 
  Fax: +45 70 20 30 11
  Direct: +45 45 177 055
  Mobile: +45 31 158 861 
  E-mail: nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Web: www.system-metode.com and www.Icebreak.org 

   


  -----Original Message-----
  From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
  Behalf Of Ewout N Boter
  Sent: 12. december 2006 11:35
  To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [WEB400] Advice about moving to a Web-environment

  I post this message because I would like to get some advice of other 
  people who have made the transition from a traditional 
  5250/RPG-environment to a Web/Java-environment. 

  At our shop, we are only developing 5250-applications. We use ILE RPG in 
  the way ILE was intended for, i.e. we have created a lot of procedures to 
  encapsulate business rules, we use service programs, activation groups, 
  etcetera. Thus, we have adopted some of the modern features of ILE RPG, 
  but we are still stuck with 5250-applications. We now want to make the 
  transition to GUI- and/or Web-applications, but we don't know how to 
  proceed. We have bought some books about using Java on the iSeries, one of 
  us is doing a course on WebSphere Application Server, we have some 
  thoughts about a Web-application we would like to build, but we are not 
  feeling confident enough to really get going. Therefore, I would like to 
  know how other shops have made the step to modernization. I think that we 
  might learn a lot from the experience of others who have travelled along 
  the way we have ahead of us. Any response would be greatly appreciated.

  Ewout
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