Building a Common RPG Foundation
There are a variety of strategies for web-enabling RPG applications. In this session, a team of presenters from Glazers will describe how they designed and implemented a new centralized customer service Java web application which uses RPG components for the core business logic.
This presentation showed:
- how the outer Java web application interfaces with the RPG business logic, and why an SQL interface was chosen over other options;
- how business logic from traditional RPG programs was extracted and restructured into reusable components;
- how DRDA was used to implement a distributed application on the RPG side;
- and how a foundation of compiled RPG and SQL business logic components can provide services to a wide variety of UI technologies (Java, PHP, EGL,etc,).
Speakers:
Paula Ewald is a senior analyst at Glazers with over 25 years of RPG experience. Earlier in her career she was with IBM. She was on the CCS design team and led the RPG development team.
Max Harris is a senior analyst at Glazers with over 25 years of RPG experience and 8 years of Java experience. He was on the CCS design team and served on the Java development team.
Kent Parish is a contract developer at Glazers with over 25 years of RPG experience. He served on the RPG development team with Paula.
