Re: IBM i authentication and RESTful web service design

Thanks for this tip, Buck. I downloaded and read all three articles.

I really think the IBM i integrated web services tools might be the right solution for our shop. The IBM i integrated web services tools would do all the heavy lifting for us in terms of exposing our COBOL programs as services (either SOAP or REST). This would shorten our learning curve and take advantage of technologies that are newer than CGI.

It would also greatly reduce the effort we have to put into designing good architectures. The IBM i integrated web services tools give us two choices of architecture (as of 7.1): SOAP or REST. 

This leaves only two other architectural concerns. 

First, we need to maintain loose coupling between the client and the server. The client will be a browser application or a hybrid mobile app on a user device. The server will be the IBM I hosting web services developed with the integrated web services tool. Loose coupling is especially important for our shop because we also have .NET web and mobile developers. We want them to be able to consume the web services from an ASP.NET context. 

Second, building browser-based clients that consume web services basically means pushing the "application" part of "web application" to the browser. We will eventually want to learn how to implement MV* architecture in the browser. That's won't be necessary for us to get started, and it won't be necessary for the smallest, simplest projects. But not everything will be really small and really simple. 

Thanks,
Kelly

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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 4:33 PM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] IBM i authentication and RESTful web service design

On 5/14/2015 1:24 PM, Kelly Cookson wrote:
> I am trying to understand in-depth how to develop RESTful web services using CGI programming on the IBM i.

This just popped up on Twitter:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-rest-web-services-server1/index.html?ca=drs-&ce=ism0070&ct=is&cmp=ibmsocial&cm=h&cr=crossbrand&ccy=us

Building a REST service with integrated web services server for IBM i:
Part 1

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  --buck

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