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RPG WEB development tools

Easy400.net provides a number of tools that may encourage RPG programmers in developing WEB applications on their AS/400's (iSeries, i5, whatever you call them).

Easy400.net is an Open Source site.
In other words, all the Easy400 tools (unless otherwise stated)

  • are free
  • include the related sources
  • can be redistribuited, provided this is done at no charge
  • can be re-engineered and / or integrated into private or commercial products, whithout requesting any permission, provided that those products carry different names from the Easy400.net original tools.

For a list of the available tools, please see page Deliverables.

The Easy400.net tools are provided "AS IS" without any warranties of any kind.
The implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringment are expressly disclaimed. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusions may not apply to you. In no event will the Easy400.net site be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages for any use of this material, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or other data on your information handling system or otherwise, even if we are expressly adviced of the possibility of such damages.
For any question, please contact the site owner: Giovanni B. Perotti.


Acknowledgments

This Easy400.net site is currently hosted ...

  • ... for its WEB pages, by Paul Tuohy
    Paul runs
    ComCon Computer Consultants company, located in Dublin, Ireland.
    They provide innovative and useful products and training for the System i (i5, iSeries and AS/400 platforms).
  • ... for its downloads, by Kevin Turner
    Kevin is one of the owners of the
    CoralTree Systems, located in Segensworth East, Fareham (Hampshire), UK.
    CoralTree Systems is a leading provider of software application design and development, specialising in the build of custom software solutions for a wide range of industry sectors.
Renaissance

Renaissance is an addition to CGIDEV2.
CGIDEV2 enables RPG programmers to develop CGI WEB applications with no learning curve.
Renaissance goes one step further, by building around CGIDEV2 a complete framework of development tools that allow to reach impressive productivity gains in implementing high quality, robust and performing CGI-based WEB applications.
The best of it, Renaissance is open source RPG code, that you download and install at no charge at all, as it complies with the MPL (Mozilla Public Licence) Open Source strategy.

Developed and distributed by CoralTree.

Articles
August 13, 2008 Serving Up Spreadsheets by Paul Tuohy
June 4, 2008 Modern Tools for Today's RPG Programmer by Jon Paris
December 4, 2007 RPG's Persistent User Spaces by Paul Tuohy
August 14, 2007 Using CGIDEV2 to generate XML documents by Jon Paris
August 13, 2007 Essential Skills for System i Web Development, Part II by Duncan Kenzie
June 10, 2007 Weaving WebSphere: Comparing the Web Languages by Joe Pluta
March 13, 2007 Web Services for the Traditional RPG Programmer, Part I by Paul Tuohy
February 14, 2006 CGIDEV2: Building native iSeries Web pages by Martin Cytrynbaum (free registration required)
January 11, 2006 Use AJAX for Bright and Shiny Web Apps, Part 2 by Duncan Kenzie
December 12, 2005 Getting started with CGIDEV2 -- Part 4 by Paul Tuohy (free registration required)
September 7, 2005 Getting started with CGIDEV2 -- Part 3 by Paul Tuohy (free registration required)
July 29, 2005 IBM will support CGIDEV2 by Luke Meredith, News Writer (free registration required)
July 26, 2005 Response to CGIDEV2 by Search400.com, Editors (free registration required)
July 26, 2005 IBM dropping CGIDEV2 web development tool? by Luke Meredith, News Writer (free registration required)
July 1, 2005 TechTip: Build Web Pages with RPG and CGIDEV2 by Kevin Forsythe
May 23, 2005 Getting started with CGIDEV2 -- Part 2 by Paul Tuohy (free registration required)
March 9, 2005 Getting started with CGIDEV2 -- Part 1 by Paul Tuohy (free registration required)
January 12, 2005 How does RPG talk to a browser? by Paul Tuohy (free registration required)
October 2004 You've Got Mail! by Jon Paris and Susan Gantner
Giovanni B. Perotti
the owner of site Easy400.net.

Giovanni was in IBM for 39 years. He started supporting AS/400 long time before it was announced.

Currently Giovanni provides a fee service in starting new iSeries WEB sites based on ILE-RPG and CGIDEV2 (the IBM free WEB enabler) and in integrating ILE-RPG WEB sites with e-mail automation based on his free utility MIME & Mail.

contact Giovanni Get in touch with Giovanni.