Re: Reverse Proxy for Node.JS on IBM i

Pete



When the internet development took speed IBM i (or what it was called at
that time) was out too late, too little and too expensive.



Many IBM i shops already had Windows servers and started to develop their
homepage in .ASP that then later was value added with dynamic pages. In
other words the IBM i environment stayed ‘green’ while the graphic
solutions was done in .ASP that had all the tools.



Besides that many IBM i/RPG programmers didn’t and still don’t have the
HTML/CSS/JS skills required to develop meaningful Web Apps.

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+1 Nathan...the thing that has made a "pure" i solution so viable is that
the web frontend of most apps is HTML5/CSS/JS because it is the best
overall solution that meets the variety of devices that will need to
display the web page. A well designed, responsive web app will basically
be HTML5/CSS/JS all of which is easily served by Apache on i. The business
logic that manages the data should naturally reside on i (why have two
tiers of business logic on two platforms?). So that is where I end up
scratching my head on ASP/i hybrid apps. What does ASP bring to the party
that can't be efficiently handled on i?

I work in a non-IBM i shop but the heavy lifting that ASP does is more
closely aligned with the MSSQL DB than anything else. Otherwise I could
move the Java/PHP code we have to i. ASP has a place in a shop where MS
has been the "legacy" app development provider but I have always struggled
to understand why in an IBM i centric shop other web technologies displace
what is already available on i.

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java


On 12/27/2014 12:02 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

Kelly,

It is of course a viable alternative to distribute development and
application workloads across both Microsoft and IBM i platforms but I also
recommend against it. You under-utilize your IBM i environment. It
increase
the complexity and cost of your systems. Microsoft provides a platform for
viruses and other malware. It compromises security. Performance and
stability suffer.

I promote IBM i on Power. It's sad to see application workloads move to
Microsoft.

With regards,

Nathan.

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