Re: IBM i GUI Frameworks

[Henrik RÃtzou <henrik.rutzou@xxxxxxxxx>]

And why use XML in a browser based solution ? this is yesterday technology
XML is fantastic to webservices, but slow in a browser where todays
dataformat
is JSON that goes directly into Javascript objects without any passing.


On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sep 17, 2010, at 10:43 AM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > since the 5250 data stream is probably stable and not being enhanced
> > or changed at all, couldn't ibm quite easily have an  option, maybe
> > an hspec or fspec option, to write and read the 5250 data stream as
> > xml?
>
> Well that to a degree was what they were originally going to do with
> Open Access but (thankfully) were talked out of it because it simply
> added overhead with no benefits. Anyone can write an OA handler that
> "wraps" the OA delivered data in XML if they want/need it - but as
> Profound, Look and VAI have proved XML is not needed.
>
> A 5250 stream delivered as XML is already available in Zend Bridge -
> that is how it works and I suspect the additional overhead of the XML
> is what slows it down some - although I confess I haven't given it a
> test drive on Zend Server.
>
> Jon Paris
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