Re: Recommendations of web developmentarchitecture/toolfordiverse i5 access...

Aaron B. wrote:
I should have more appropriately said that languages
like Java are _better_ suited for frameworks because
of their OO-ness and "object discovery" capabilities
(thinking of things like annotations, instanceof,etc).

Well, if you're framework consists of UI widgets and you'd like add them to the
palette of a WYSISYG designer, then I get your point about "object discovery".
I understand that a lot of people are interested in that type of framework. I
prefer the HTML template paradigm, where the WYSIWYG designer is a tool like
Dreamweaver.

I think I just need to reformulate that into RPG speak and see
how I could retain state of RPG "objects" (say instances of named
data) across requests...

Barbara Morris shared a technique with me about 7 years ago that has been most
helpful. I have to admit that there's one component in my toolkit that
dynamically renders itself as HTML - a combo list. It's kind-of object
oriented. Here's an RPG code sample:

// return an new instance of combo box named "cars"
cboCars = cboNew("cars");

// dynamically add entries to the instance
cboAddItem("Chevy":"1");
cboAddItem("Ford":"2");
cboAddItem("Toyota":"3");

...

// perhaps later set the current instance to one in memory

cboSetInst(cboCars);


// render it as HTML
cboToHTML();

...

// perhaps when a session ends destroy the instance (free the memory)
cboDestroy();

...

Just an idea.

you can simply turn on/off a switch and take a web app and
turn it into a desktop app and vice versa.

My reaction after reading about it at the Microsoft Web site was "What were
they thinking?"

Nathan.