Re: Turning green-screen apps into web apps

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Depending on what your longterm goal is (i.e. stay with RPG or migrate to
.NET), you might want to take a look at vendors that do the initial screen
scraping and also provide solid mechanisms for new development in RPG.

For example, I know Profound Logic has both Genie**, for immediate refacing,
and ProfoundUI (which now encompasses Genie  it appears, but was originally
slated as a stand alone product for new RPG development for modern UIs).

I am not for certain, but I thought I saw IceBreak (from Neils on this list)
had similar functionality.  Happy hunting!

** http://profoundlogic.com/prouigenie.rpgsp

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We are starting to look more seriously at making some of our green-screen
> apps into intranet apps. The first program would from our payroll software
> that is vendor created and supported. Since we don't control the source (in
> this case), we cannot take an approach like RPGUI and we would also like to
> allow for green-screen usage AND web usage at the same time. I have been
> looking at software like Presto from BCD and NewLook from Look Software
> that
> essentially does screen-scraping. I have not tried either one yet.
>
> As I have said on here before, our knowledge base here is RPG and C# and we
> would like to avoid PHP if possible so we don't spread out our knowledge
> base too thin. We also have a solid base of HTML, CSS, and
> jQuery/JavaScript.
>
> 1. Do you use this type of software and how do you like it?
> 2. Which product do you use/like/wish you used instead?
> 3. How easily customizable is it and do you do any?
> 4. Could I have an ASP.NET application work with the framework to create a
> custom application to interface with a green-screen application?
>
> Also, has anyone done a comparison of each of the options head-to-head to
> see where the pluses and minuses are?
>
> I'm sure I'll have more questions, but this is a start. I am just trying to
> wrap my head around this better to put together a good proposal.
>
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