Re: javascript & stored procedure

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ps.. Add jQuery in the mix and you'll be writing some pretty neat
applications.  :)

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Booth,
>
> CGI programming with RPG _IS_ super easy and should be for any
> programmer.  It's been around for many years (I think my first eRPG book
> was published in 1999).  Using CGIDEV2, our eRPG SDK or another available
> kits is a must(even though I hate to say that)
>
> Don't try to just use the APIs or API wrappers  Download one of these
> toolkits and you'll see how easy things can be.
>
> The hard part for most is learning HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc.  Most of
> these are new to RPG programmers only because they're used to doing
> business programming.  And these technologies seem to be every changing
> (for the better) so yes, putting together web applications should be
> considered a full time job, just as reporting or subfile programming is.
>
> You are right.  It shouldn't be hard.  Because it isn't.  :)
>
> All any of these solutions do, whether its Perl, PHP, Python, Node, RPG,
> etc is spit out dynamic content to a browser.  Making it look nice is the
> part most RPGers struggle with.
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com