Re: Web5250 Business Developers was ->Re: IBM Gives RPG Devotees Their Own Café

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The answer is: It is open source and I understand the tn5250j license on 
which it is based, it should be able to be integrated with any other 
open source project as ong as the license trems are met (it's GPL IIRC)

The basic Web5250 stuff was some thrown together, proof of concept stuff 
I did years ago (at least 5) while I was trying to come up with a 
menuing system that would be web based but could still run 5250 apps.  
The basic idea was that as 5250 programs were replaced with web based 
analogs the end user wouldn't have to learn a completely new menuing 
system to go anywhere but the existing browser.  So I built with 
prototype which is really just a very thin layer (well, not thin enough 
for Nathan!) over the top of tn5250j.  Just parsing the 5250 stream and 
sending it to the browser with a servlet.  Really, nothing more than 
that.  I started on a keyboard mapping add on and was working on a way 
that a user could set preferences for colors, fonts and the like but I 
had other projects that I needed to make money with so I set web5250 aside.

Always ready to contribute to the Open Source community, expecially if 
it can continue to enhance the IBM i OS platform.

Pete


Niels Liisberg wrote:
> Pete wrote>> I learned more than I wanted to when I wrote the web5250 
> stuff, rendering 5250 directly into the browser (no plugin needed, just 
> a browser, since it was producing "pure" html)<<
>
> Hi Pete;
>
> I'm not familiar with your "web5250 stuff", but I have come across some
> request in that directions.
>
> Is it possible that we can bundle it into the soon coming open-source of
> IceBreak? 
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Niels Liisberg
> IceBreak Chief SW Architect
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Pete Helgren
> Sent: 20. december 2008 01:28
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Business Developers was ->Re: IBM Gives RPG Devotees
> Their Own Café
>
> "On my TODO list I have an intention to dig into the TN5250 and TN5250J
>    projects to see how they evaluate the 5250 stream and eventually 
> render it
>    to the client. "
>
> There was one guy on the tn5250j list that was doing some on the fly 
> rendering of a more graphical interface, similar to screen scraping, 
> using tn5250j.  I learned more than I wanted to when I wrote the web5250 
> stuff, rendering 5250 directly into the browser (no plugin needed, just 
> a browser, since it was producing "pure" html).
>
> Do take a look at tn5250j.  It is fairly well structured code.  Recently 
> there was an Italian firm that was talking about picking up the loose 
> ends and running with it, since it has languished in the last 2 or 3 years.
>
> Pete
>
>