Michael,
<vendor response>
Please give our product a try. You can download a 30 day free trial by
registering here:
http://www.profoundui.com
We'd be happy to give you an introductory demo of the product (over a
"Goto Meeting" session. If that interests you, please contact our sales
department.
http://www.profoundlogic.com/contact.rpgsp
</vendor response>
On a more personal note... what I've always wanted for RPG was a
"native GUI", and of course, we've been trying to get IBM to do
something about that for a long time, to no avail.
Recently, I left my job at Klement's Sausage company, and accepted a
position with Profound Logic. The reason I wanted to work for Profound
was that their ProfoundUI product does almost _exactly_ what I've always
wanted in a native GUI. It has an easy to use screen designer where you
drag/drop stuff to design your screen, and you don't need to understand
the underlying technology to do so. It's brilliant.
Profound UI uses a web browser as a way of rendering this native UI. So
you might call it "web enabling", since it's all done with web technologies.
But, despite that it all uses open web technologies, the paradigm for a
native GUI is a bit different from that of a traditional web page.
Native GUI is perfect for in-house applications, or really, business
logic in general. The native GUI approach is much more "application
like", more like you would have if you designed a native Windows
program, or native iPhone app, or native Android... except without
being locked into any of these environments -- it runs entirely on IBM
i, and just uses the browser to render the screens.
To me, this makes it ideal for in-house applications. Where it's
less-than-ideal is when you want something to be picked up by Google and
other search engines. (Though, our company also sells a product for
that type of app called RPGsp..)
It does, indeed, use JSON under the covers.
So, to me it sounds like a great fit for you. I hope you'll download the
trial and give it a try and see if it would be a good fit.
On 12/7/2012 10:55 AM, Michael Ryan wrote:
Ok...wide ranging topic I'm sure, but it's Friday. Here's what I'm looking
for...opinions, solutions, ideas regarding web enabling (browser access) to
i applications. A couple of points: The logic on the i will be written
(re-written) to be accessed by a procedure call. I'm pretty sure I want the
returned data to be in JSON format. I'm obviously concerned about security
and session state. This application would be for in-house users, not the
public.
I'm thinking three main middleware paths - PHP, CGI, and vendor
proprietary...others?
Some products/frameworks that I know of are easy CGIDEV2, Renaissance,
Zend, powerEXT..others?
Feel free to contact me off list if desired. I look forward to the comments.
Thanks!
midrange.com
