Re: Communicating with web server

["Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: "Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>

If I had the choice, I'll run the CGI directly in the AS/400. Configure 
the web server in the AS and write the programs that receive the data, 
validate it, give the Ok or message to the user, and write the order to 
your ERP package.
You can put the whole page in the AS, but it may be easier to begin with 
the part in charge of taking the orders.
One of the great features of the web is the fact that you can easily mix 
in the same page elements from different servers, the form to be filled 
may come from a Linux or even windos machine and send the data to the AS 
for processing.

Other options are to put the data available to your web server via JDBC 
or use dataqueues to comunicate between AS an web server. You can also 
use XML there.

Grizzly M wrote:

> We have a web server hosting our website that is used for placing 
> orders. I have to implement something on our iSeries that will 
> communicate with that server. The iSeries will be doing back end stuff 
> like checking inventory levels and writing orders to our ERP package. 
> I’m guessing the web app server will send data to the 400 and OS/400 
> programs will run from there. I’m looking for some ideas, best 
> practices, or industry standards for implementing something like this. 
> I’m guessing I need to start by configuring the http server on the 400 
> to communicate with the outside world, but from there I’m not sure 
> what my best options are. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Griz Malchow



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