Re: put in safety my Rest Web Services

I agree with the sentiment. Yes you can do everything with RPG but why would you want to when there are many better options available on the same platform. I spent many man days a couple of years ago developing an RPG service program that will interface with the Twitter API and Facebook Graph. It works well and I am very proud of it - it is also a tad complicated. However, now I could install a fully functional node version (via npm) and have the same functionality in a fraction of the time. Now IBM have introduced a toolkit that enables node apps to integrate fully with native i objects (programs, data queues, user spaces etc) so there is even less of a reason to fight the tide. You can now use RPG for the sort of stuff it is good at, and pick and choose from other options if they do the job better. Even Git runs on the IBMi now - we now use Git for source change control and can share and clone repos from IFS locations, PCs, Macs etc. We no longer need to rely on expensive change control solutions - Git is free, and is better.

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On 19 Aug 2015, at 17:18, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

*>the server-side language is RPGLE*

And this is one of the reasons I've moved on from using RPG as a website
language - you have to go through all the motions of creating things like
this from scratch. And then even after you've developed it (at
considerable expense to your company) you have to maintain it and fix bugs
yourself.

I don't say this to ruffle feathers and instead hope to help others come to
the same conclusion I have after many years of beating the "RPG can do
anything" drum. Sure it can. But at what cost? We're not only talking
cost of development but cost of lost business opportunity because it took
so long to procure the technology/online-offering.

Going with an open source language has risks. Keeping with RPG for web has
more risks (my opinion).




Aaron Bartell

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:05 AM, pat <p.caroti@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@...> writes:

What is the server-side language? Many open source languages have

packages

for this (plug and play).

Aaron Bartell

the server-side language is RPGLE


Thanks




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