Web 2.0 is a "big tent" kind of a term, and not only includes social networking, but also the concept of "Rich Interface Applications" (RIA) that run in a web browser.
The two most popular technologies these days for building web browser RIAs are "AJAX" (javascript frameworks) and Adobe Flex. Adobe Flex is an open source toolkit and SDK which generates applications that run in the (proprietary) Adobe Flash plugin, which is ubiquitous these days thanks to YouTube and the like. IBM has just released a new version of the "JZOS Cookbook" which includes a new chapter and sample code project which demonstrates building an RIA using Adobe Flex. The Flex RIA is packaged in a web application that runs on z/OS that also includes a sample Java web service for accessing the z/OS catalog, using the JZOS CatalogSearch API. The best way to explain the sample app is to say that it is a browser RIA similar to ISPF 3.4. The new cookbook also contains a sample Eclipse project with all of the sample Java and Flex code, both a basic version of the RIA and a little more advanced one. Here's the JZOS alphaWorks URL where you can download the new cookbook: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/zosjavabatchtk Our hope is that this will be a motivating demonstration of the kind of "Web 2.0" applications that you can build to run on z/OS. Steve Goetze and I will be presenting and demonstrating this work at SHARE in Denver, at a session currently titled "JZOS Meets Web 2.0". Please come if you can, or feel free to comment or ask questions on the JZOS alphaWorks forum. Your feedback is appreciated. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Jim Marshall <jim.marsh...@opm.gov> wrote: > Right now in WashDC the hot topic is Web 2.0 and how it can be implemented > to help the government get more in tuned with the 21st century. Are there > any suggestions of how Web 2.0 with all of its blogs, wikis, live discussion > forums and other forms of social networking has been implemented at your > site. These do not have to be running on the mainframe. The idea is how > these came to help out your IT community hopefully with some strategy which > shows how human the mainframers are. > > Then if you have, what kinds of software were used and product names are > fine to give me a starting point. Would appreciate any kind of idea no matter > how it sounds. > > thanks jim > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
