E-Deployment

1-58347-021-2 e-Deployment: The Fastest Path to the WebThis book is both a how-to manual and a comprehensive analysis of e-deployment, the innovative new strategy for putting your existing AS/400 legacy applications on the Web. The book itself is a fresh new style of writing, in keeping with the interactive nature of the Web itself: You can take a fast path through selected chapters and sections to quickly get an application on the Web, or you can take a leisurely, thorough look at the design of the software that enables this breakthrough technology, to more fully understand the process and give you a head start on developing your own e-deployment technologies. The CD-ROM that accompanies the book contains more than 10,000 lines of source code for all of the workstation, host, and middleware software required to use the e-deployment technology. All of the Java packages, including source and Java.doc (in browser-friendly HTML format) are included, along with thick- and thin-client example programs. The CD-ROM also includes an AS/400 support library, with full source, as well as the example programs used in the book. As an additional value, there is a Web site specifically for the buyers of this book. This dynamic Web site has tips and techniques, updates and enhancements to the software, and a forum for ongoing discussion of the redeployment process. So if you are an AS/400 application developer who wants to quickly and economically transform existing legacy programs from green-screens to either thick-client or browser-based distributed applications, with minimal disruption to users, this package of book plus software plus ongoing, interactive Web support will help you achieve asuccessful redeployment of your legacy systems. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to: Identify the benefits of application modernization to your business, assess the impact of and conflicts between the available application modernization technologies, understand the various network architectures, including client/server, SQL, ODBC, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), and browser-based solutions, understand the various browser-based solutions, including applets, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), servlets, and JavaServer Pages (JSPs) . You will be able to plan a flexible, staged conversion of your systems from green-screens to the combination of user interfaces your business needs, transform an existing monolithic RPG program into a flexible application client, quickly build a display file proxy object, quickly design and deploy a green-screen user interface server; a thick-client user interface server, using the Java Swing, classes; or a browser-based user interface server, using servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSPs). It will also teach you how to use FTP and Windows Explorer as part of a distributed application development environment, install, test, and configure the Java Development Kit (JDK) and associated extensions, create and test a Swing application on the workstation, configure and run IBM's HTTP Server and IBM's WebSphere Application Server, and create and test a servlet and JavaServer Page (JSP) application on the AS/400. Audience: AS/400 application developers who want to make the move from green-screen to graphical user interfaces. Level: Intermediate, Operating System Level: V4R3 and above