Increase IBM i Web Development Productivity With Generic Components?

Henrik/Kevin,

Your approach of generic EXTJS UI components is good but why not leverage
SQL to define the business model AND UI grid JS object model? This allows
subfile/work with type applications to be created instantly with no
client side JS.

For example:

select cusnum, lstnam, state, baldue from qiws/qcustcdt

This defines a generic "work with customers" grid.
You have a dynamic business object CUSTOMER with attributes CUSNUM, LSTNAM,
STATE, BALDUE. The UI can generated based on the metadata of the
attributes.

The generic WORK WITH list of records is the #1 most developed pattern in
all of software development and with this approach the programmer instantly
has WORK WITH screens for any of their database files.

Here is the development approach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDuczx7Z6ng


This is an example CUSTOMER WORK WITH application:
http://www.planetjavainc.com/wowADDONDEV/runApp?id=185&_pj_lib=wowsamp