Re: Updates

Hello Pete

Yes Aaron has created a nice little program.  Am very impressed with it 
so far.  It is making my life very easy and makes me look good.  Need 
that in this economy.

Yes I saw the plugin but have not had a chance to look at it in detail 
or play around with it.

I have had a chance to work with JQuery and thought about the same thing 
with a little ajax thrown in.  Did not think about JSON for the 5250 
stream though.  It looks a little complicated and wondering if anything 
has come out of it.  Will have to look around for that project.

I set up a couple of people back in Sep/Oct time frame but have not 
heard anything back from them.  Have and continue still having people 
asking to change the license.  One in particular was very adamant about 
the project not being used anymore if the license stayed the way it 
does.  Have a couple of stories as well of clients and vendors using the 
project and one in particular where I had to break out my passport to 
prove that it was me.  My wife got quite a chuckle out of that one as 
she is the one that brought it to the product vendor's notice that they 
were using the project.

Regards

Kenneth

Pete Helgren wrote:
> Kenneth,
>
> I know Aaron well.  We have had several conversations and shared a beer 
> or two at Common Conferences in the past.  Very good guy.  Smart.  Loves 
> the i and is under 30 !
>
> Where I have seen tn5250j show up lately was as an eclipse plugin 
> (something *I* was going to do if I ever got the time) and some 
> discussion of a web version that would deliver JSON data to be 
> consumed.  Sort of like what you had done, and I played with, with the 
> web5250 stuff.  Except the consumer would be something like jQuery that 
> would render/respond to the JSON/5250 stream.  It would actually be a 
> cool little tool that would allow you to login and grab some IBM i data 
> and interact with the i.  Plus it would be a relatively lightweight 5250 
> browser application.   That discussion fell out of a discussion on 
> midrange.com that was then picked up by a developer of ICEBreak who 
> prototyped a JSON based 5250 browser using RPG to generate the JSON.
>
> 5250 is still alive and well on the i, despite the many reports of its 
> demise!
>
> I may end up with some additional time in the summer since a contract 
> that I have had with an i customer may not be renewed this year. If so, 
> I might have time for more "fun" (but less profitable) work on tn5250j 
> plus other things.
>
> Good yo see you back here.  It has be WAY too quiet. 
>
> Also, there were some posts from an Italian company that had some 
> interest in enhancing tn5250j as well (last September/October).  Did 
> they ever contact you?  What became of that?
>
> Pete
>
>
> kjpou wrote:
>   
>> Hey all
>>
>> Just wanted to introduce myself again.  Been AWOL for a while on the 
>> server, PC and network side.  Lot's of neat projects that allowed me to 
>> learn and expand.
>>
>> It looks like I am on an AS400 again.  This time writing webservices.  
>> Cool package at http://www.rpg-xml.com
>>
>> Hey they also use the tn5250j emulator.  Talked to aaron bartel as 
>> well.  Very nice guy.
>>
>> It looks like the project has grown way beyond me and taken on a life of 
>> it's own.  Did a search on 'tn5250j' and came up with a lot of hits.
>>
>> Not sure how much time I will have to contribute but hopefully get some 
>> activity up and going again.
>>
>> Downloaded the source and ran it on my Mac today but no AS400 to connect 
>> to so it just sat there looking sad.  A little wave of nostalgia.
>>
>> I know there seems to be some problems with keyboard mapping which was a 
>> PITA to begin with.  Does anybody know off the top of their heads if it 
>> is just a recompile problem or some code needs to be put in?
>>
>> Any other problems that have had solutions while I was away?  Maybe we 
>> can get them into the main code base.
>>
>> Anybody out there from the old days still around?
>>
>> I know Pete is out there.  So want to send a hello to him.
>>
>> I received no takers on the CVS to SVN so will give it a shot.
>>
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