Re: XMLSERVICE with .Net

And given its relative youth I expect even more to jump on board. Plus, anyone who wishes to port another language like Ruby, Python, PERL, etc. can leverage XML Service to access IBM i artifacts with the need for proprietary solutions and stored procedures.

And, if one of those folks were to open up the XML Service project and read some of the RPG code in there, they might just get inspired to appreciate RPG a little bit more...

Hmmm...

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Seiden
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 8:51 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] XMLSERVICE with .Net

Community members have contributed code, both to XMLSERVICE and the PHP wrapper that uses it.

Alan

On 8/8/12 3:26 PM, Henrik Rützou wrote:

Jon



d) Providing an RPG-based solution *that could be extended and
improved by the community* without waiting for IBM



Can you give me one example where “the community” severely and in
collaboration has expanded and improved an existing Open Source
project on IBM I?

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon,

d) wasn't that what CGIDEV2 was all about?


On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Doesn't PHP have a Java bridge ?

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date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:59:07 -0400
from: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] XMLSERVICE with .Net


On 2012-08-06, at 9:34 AM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

XMLSERVICE is primarily constructed to cover some needs in PHP and
even though it comes with a CGI interface it lack as far as I know
completely session management and control so there will be
considerable security issues if one should use it in a web environment.

While it undoubtedly is useful in a PHP environment it was mostly
aimed
at:

a) Getting round the limitations of the jt400 interface (which were
what caused issues for PHP) - mostly the restrictions on function
return values and limits on types of parameters that could be passed.

b) Providing an interface to data that could be used from any
platform that supported SQL-type interfaces.

c) Providing a CGI-rest-style interface for situations where b was
not applicable.

d) Providing an RPG-based solution that could be extended and
improved by the community without waiting for IBM

By doing these things it also enabled toolkit access from any PHP
platform and provided a simple foundation for similar tooling to be
added to any other language. The new PHP toolkit itself is
open-source and so can also be extended by anyone.


Jon Paris

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