RE: Question(s) about Web Services using RPG/HTTPAPI

["Jason Baker" <JasonB@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Musthafa,

I was a little confused on what "not the conventional ones" meant.

We currently have about 3,000 of our customers using one of our order
entry web sites and we are getting ready to release another order entry
web site for just normal customers on the web.

Both sites, have graphics, use embedded styles, embedded Java Scripts
and one lets the users pick what size of screen they want so everything
is resized according to their screen size they choose.

All of this is using CGIDEV2.

If you are referring to "conventional" as "standard" then I would
probably agree.  However; non-standard free/standard not free.  Actually
some of the "standard" items were quite costly and ran much slower.  I
had a representative from IBM come in and demonstrate Web Sphere.  All I
wanted him to do was bring up our customer file on a web page so I can
see how it worked.  This "expert" took about 45 minutes to do this
messing around with Java Beans and when he got it done, it took about 30
seconds for it to show on the page.  Not only that, but the development
studio you installed took up about 750MB of memory just to have it
running on the pc.  I laughed at the guy and showed him how I would do
it.  From scratch, I put something together in about 5 minutes and it
showed the records in about 3 seconds.

For me and my company, we choose the "non-standard" for multiple
reasons.  We run at a P5 level with 3,000 customers hitting the box all
day long with no hesitation at all and it was free.


-----Original Message-----
From: ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mohamed
Musthafa Safarulla
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:57 PM
To: HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects
Subject: Re: Question(s) about Web Services using RPG/HTTPAPI

You can create a webservice using CGIDEV2 but not the conventional ones
though. You can implement the logic of webservice implemented through
CGIDEV2.

Thanks,
Musthafa

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Well...
>
> 1) HTTPAPI doesn't come into play when publishing a web service
> 2) You need to be running a web server
> 3) You need to output a document instead of reading it
> 4) The CGIDEV2 toolset is one possibility
>
> http://www.easy400.net/
>
>
> http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/dev-tools/web-services-for-th
> e-traditional-rpg-programmer-part-i.html
>
>
> HTH,
> Charles
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Steve Garner <sgarner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >   After reviewing the presentation "Consuming Web Services from RPG
> >   using HTTPAPI", I need to learn more about publishing (or
providing) a
> >   Web Service using HTTPAPI/RPG, how is this different from
"consuming"
> >   and/or what, if any, API's are provided for this?
> >
> >
> >   Please advise.
> >
> >
> >   Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >   Steve Garner
> >
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Musthafa
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