Web GUI Development Options
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There are numerous options for developing applications for the i which use a Web based Graphical User Interface.
Product/Language | Vendor | Description | Free/Open Source/Commercial | Commercial Support Available | Suitable for 5250 Migration | Rapid Application Development | non-RPG skills needed |
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PHP | Zend | PHP is an open source general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages | F/OSS or Commercial | Yes | Optional not F/OSS | No | PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript |
ProfoundUI | ProfoundLogic | Profound UI is a full-featured graphical user interface platform based on IBM's RPG Open Access, the ground-breaking enhancement to RPG that opens IBM i applications (also known as iSeries, System i and AS/400) up to Web interfaces. The platform offers developers an easy, natural method for creating connected IBM i applications that deliver rich user experiences regardless of project complexity or organization size. | Commercial | Yes | Yes, RPG OA | Yes, Drag and drop | None |
RPGsp | ProfoundLogic | RPGsp is an award-winning rapid Web development environment that has been proven and trusted by thousands of IBM i users. Whether you need to extend your existing legacy programs or build new applications, RPGsp can deliver phenomenal results in a short amount of time. | Commercial | Yes | Yes, Converter | Yes, Wizards | HTML/CSS/JavaScript |
Web Object Wizard (WOW) | planetJCorp | WOW creates data driven business applications using data from IBM DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, MYSQL and other RDBMS. WOW runs on application servers such as IBM Websphere, Apache Tomcat, and Weblogic. | Commercial w/free CE edition available | Yes | No | Yes, Wizards | SQL |
CGIDEV2 | Easy400 | CGIDEV2 is a free and open source IBM i based program development toolkit that facilitates the development of interactive web-based programs using RPG ILE or Cobol (using the older CGIDEV version) as the back-end Common Gateway Interface language. The functionality of this toolset is incorporated into an RPG ILE program by means of a service program that contains all of the procedures required to read input from a browser, generate and send the appropriate response back to the browser. CGIDEV2 is commonly used to generate static or interactive HTML/DHTML pages but it can also produce CSV, XML, Excel-XML and other text based files. | F/OSS | No | No | Yes, via Renaissance Framework | HTML/CSS/JavaScript |
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