Re: Java Client screen formatting on AS/400 itself

Hello Wim,

'client programs that resemble the standard AS/400 look and feel'
I mean that we want to have a screen layout with options, function keys,
header, 'subfile'. (I think it is called the SAA standard)

We are indeed connected with telnet to AS/400, but start a Java client, and
we want it to give us the above screen layout.

I tested it with Java Curses (SourceForge project)
	quote	("The Java Curses Library (JCurses) is library for
developing text terminal based applications using Java programming language.
It is implemented as a Windowing toolkit similar to AWT, but built upon the
UNIX "curses" windowing system. ")

Java Curses is a Jar using (through JNI) a C DLL calling Windows screen
manipulation API's. It is a simple exercise to create the desired layout.

I tried to port it to AS/400 replacing the Windows API's by OS/400 API's
(Dynamic Screen Management), but unfortunately this does not work.

	quote (The Dynamic Screen Manager (DSM) APIs are a set of screen I/O
interfaces that provide a dynamic way to create and manage screens for the
Integrated Language Environment (ILE) high-level languages. Because the DSM
interfaces are bindable, they are accessible to ILE programs only.)

Another alternative is to have a C program, taking care of the Screen
Layout, and calling (JNI) the java classes to perform the actual work. THis
is a nasty solution, because it leads to non portable code.

I hope this explains 'my wishes'


Regards

Luc



Hello Luc, 

what do you understand by 'client programs that resemble the standard 
AS/400 look and feel'. As you can connect with telnet to the AS/400, you 
can do this across a dialup. As the native interface of AS/400 is only 
telnet/5250, I do not understand you question. 

And what is Java Curses?

Wim.




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