Re: tn5250j enhancements

"Martin W. Kirst" <[email protected]> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:43:39 +0200
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Jim,

thanks for pointing this out.
Frankly said, my interests have shifted and I spend my time on other
open source projects :-)

Regards
Martin

Am 02.04.2013 23:36, schrieb jim northrop:
> Hi Martin
> if you'd like to contribute to the tn5250j project, you CAN get some
> free as400 time. Look here for a link to the german website that can
> help you on that issue : http://jnorthr.wordpress.com/category/as400/
> i use tn5250j to talk to that site, so i know it works :)
> good luck
> k/r
> jim
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> On 2 April 2013 21:21, Martin W. Kirst <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     Tim,
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>     thanks for sharing all these interesting ideas.
>     >From what I estimate, I think that Beanshell support should be
>     an easy task to implement.
>     The other two, headless and Telnet support, I consider more complex=

>     for implementing in Tn5250j - but not impossible ;-)
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>     Because I don't have access to AS400 anymore (changed my job),
>     I'm no more active in development.
>     I would be happy, if you would contribute your work to Tn5250j
>     (under the GPL). If you're interested you can get have access to th=
e
>     repository (assuming the other ones are fine with that).
>     If so, the branch 'tn5250j-new-tabs-jse1.6' is the best starting po=
int.
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>     I've also imported your sources to my Eclipse IDE and hit 'Run...'.=

>     Unluckily I've got an error, which I've attached to this email.
>     I hope this helps you, tracking down the issue (if there's one).
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>     Regards
>     Martin
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>     Am 28.03.2013 16:51, schrieb Tim Hurman:
>     > Dear all,
>     >
>     > A while back I ran into an interesting use case for tn5250j that =
I
>     wanted
>     > to explore; however, it would need a few changes to the codebase =
and I
>     > wanted to get your opinion to see if they were feasible before I =
spend
>     > time coding them up.
>     >
>     > The use case is this: You may be familiar with Apache Camel
>     > (http://camel.apache.org/). This is a nice ETL style tool that ca=
n
>     stream
>     > together a number of data sources. I wanted to write a Camel Comp=
onent
>     > that could drive a tn5250j terminal through some scripting. This
>     is great
>     > for legacy houses that have everything on an AS/400 where it is
>     just too
>     > expensive to move the business logic out.
>     >
>     > However, in order to do this, I would need to put in a few
>     changes. These
>     > are:
>     >
>     > 1. Introduce BeanShell scripting (http://www.beanshell.org/). I
>     realise
>     > that Jython is the current scripting language, but camel has Bean=
shell
>     > built in. Basically this would give the user the ability to run a=

>     > Beanshell or Jython script. From what I estimate this is a simple=
 GUI
>     > change to select the language (or autoselect), a bit of code to
>     set up the
>     > shell variables/launch the script and the inclusion of the
>     Beanshell JAR
>     > into the distribution. Is that okay?
>     >
>     > 2. The option of a headless (in memory only) terminal. Obviously
>     server
>     > environments are unlikely to have X running and therefore trying
>     to open a
>     > terminal would fail. Even if it worked, having lots of terminals
>     open and
>     > prone to interference is not clean. This would change the
>     architecture of
>     > the software a bit from what I can see.
>     >
>     > 3. Added Telnet network capability. In order to help with above, =
and
>     > support enhancements such as auto login which simplifies the scri=
pting
>     > process, the networking area would need a bit of work. To that en=
d
>     I have
>     > already re-written the networking part and Telnet negotation. I
>     have set
>     > this up to transparently provide terminal messages to whichever
>     variant of
>     > screen is attached. It is included in the attached zip. Is this
>     something
>     > that the team would like to include?
>     >
>     > Yours,
>     > Tim
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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