Re: Web Enabling Applications - new Wiki page

[Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles, I'm not sure that "Move an existing 5250 app to the web" is 
much clearer.

If I have a green-screen program right now, and I rewrite it from the 
ground up in a web framework, have I "moved it" to the web?  I'm 
guessing not -- but you could make the argument that you did, because it 
was 5250, now it's web.

If I run a 5250 emulator whose output is a web page, i.e. where the 
application program is still writing a 5250 display, and that 5250 
display is being transformed on the fly ("screen scraper") is that 
moving it to the web?  (I'd submit not -- because the application didn't 
change to be a web application -- but you might not agree.)

What about tools that do a one-time conversion from 5250 screen to a web 
page, and then you have to rewrite (or significantly modify) your RPG 
program to use the resultant screen?  Or rewrite in a different 
language?  Does that count?  Does rewriting the program count as 
"moving" it?

IMHO, if the term isn't clarified, virtually any sort of web application 
can be interpreted as "Suitable for 5250 migration".




On 12/14/2012 11:33 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:
> Simply means I can move an existing 5250 app to the web....
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> Charles
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> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> > I agree.   Also "Suitable for 5250 Migration" is completely left open to
> > interpretation, too.  What is the criteria for "suitable"?  And what is
> > considered a "migration"?