Re: IBM i GUI Frameworks

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JSON is by far the better solution.  That's probably why EGL supports 
both JSON and SOAP for communication between layers.  But the idea of 
writing a 5250 program and using that to talk to the web is definitely 
very old technology.  Heck, that's what my PSC/400 tool has been doing 
for ten years.

The right answer is to write programs that act as services.  IBM i 
programmers need to learn how to write callable business objects, 
period.  Then it doesn't matter what the front end is.  To that end, 
anything that extends the 5250 interface is purely tactical, not 
strategic.  Instead, by encapsulating your business logic in services, 
you can use whatever framework you want.

Obviously I prefer EGL :)

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/open_egl/34329p1.aspx

Joe

> 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.
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