Re: Web Enabling Applications - new Wiki page

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.
You have, but the tool didn't do it for you so no.



> 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.)
I'd count "screen scraping", but I'd note that that's what's being done.
 But I wouldn't count a 5250 emulator screen on a web page.


> 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?
Again, If you have to manually rewrite, that doesn't count.


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



Charles