Re: Code donations for RPGUI initiative

[Tech Guru <techguru@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

Thanks for stepping up to the plate for IBM i and open source. I will look
over the project in sourceforge. I'm not sure how much time I could commit
to the effort but anything I can do I will.

On a separate but related note, I'll mention your efforts in my year-end
newsletter to the iManifest groups. Maybe we can get you some more corporate
buy-in.  :-)

All the best,
Jeff Olen


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am in the process of developing a GPL v3 (open source/free) framework
> that
> is titled RPGUI.  You can find more information about it on my site:
> http://mowyourlawn.com/rpgui.html
>
> The purpose of this email is to see if there are others out there that
> would
> be willing to donate specific portions of code to the effort.  I have
> detailed two of my current needs below.  The obvious requirement would be
> that the code can be released into the public space without any strings
> attached.  I haven't gone into intense details as I figure if you have
> developed such a piece of code you would know what I am talking about.  If
> these items are too vague then I can expound on them.
>
> ---"CGI Router" ---
> This code would be able to receive a request from the browser and
> correspondingly send the request to a job waiting on a data queue.  The job
> waiting on the data queue is more or less simulating an EXFMT.  The data
> queue would be keyed and the job would wait for a specific entry.  After
> the
> CGI Router wrote an entry to the data queue it would immediately wait for a
> subsequent response on the same data queue using the same unique key.
>
> ---"Intermediary Data Holder"---
> When a request comes in from the browser I will have a generic program
> "parse" the data and place it into a location that will be accessible by
> the
> job waiting on the aforementioned data queue.  I could use DB2 tables, but
> that is potentially a lot of extra DB I/O for each request/response trip
> to/from the browser.  I was thinking that user spaces or user indexes would
> be the way to go.  Whatever the mechanism, it will need to have indexing
> capabilities so pieces of information can be retrieved fast (think of a
> name-value-pair array).
>
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone that is willing to donate,
> Aaron Bartell
> www.SoftwareSavesLives.com
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