Hello Kenneth,
we have to build an extranet application for a customer hooking up onto their existing AS/400 applications. Well, it's not really an extranet app. All users are on VPN hooken in directly on the LAN. This means we can do something. The users are the commercial exterior service force of the customer. So they'll also need existing applications over the functionality provided by the new webapplication as we can not convert all software at once.
The web application will be based on JSF talking over our Java/iSeries connector to RPG backend system. We've done this a few times now. Some links on the website need to launch a 5250 application with autologon and command calling. As said it's going to be used on an 'intranet' and secured. So we can pass uids and pwds around freely. The emulator itself passes it also unencrypted. In our situation this is not a concern. Otherwise, you should SSL the connection, I think.
We were indeed thinking in webstarting an parameterised JFrame with systemname, uid, pwd and command etc.
What's your opinion?
Wim.
| Kenneth Pouncey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/06/2005 09:36
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Wim
The other reason I am asking you the specifics is because I did not like the way
the arguments were being passed for the user and password. It is basically in
clear text for anyone with a little knowleged to look at. Maybe there is a
better way to do this?
Maybe my definition of portal needs to be updated a little bit. A little
reading I guess should do the trick. Also a real world example would benefit
not just myself but others that are interested as well.
Regards
Kenneth
Quoting Kenneth Pouncey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Wim
>
> Beleive me I will be the first to admit that the code is not the best OO
> code
> base. Although it is a hell of a lot better than it used to be. I think
> the
> refactoring went well over all IMHO.
>
> Actually started to write him about the SessionBeans class but decided not
> to
> get in the middle. Am thinking maybe he based this off of an old
> distribution
> code base and not CVS as he mentions in the article to download the latest
> source bundle.
>
> Anyway it is good to see something different for the use of the codebase so
> it
> can not be too bad.
>
> What exactly are going to try to do with this if you do not mind me asking?
> Will you be using portals like the article mentions? If so what are the
> benefits and or uses of this over an applit or starting from java webstart?
>
> I ask so that maybe we can get something written up to some extent on how
> you
> will actually go about doing this without all the modifications. We can put
> it
> out on the website or your company website.
>
> Regards
>
> Kenneth
>
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> > Hello Kenneth,
> >
> > Maybe what he says is true, but if you start hacking the GUI class to
> > inject you own user credentials, you do worse then structuring not the
> > best OO code. Why doesn't he just use the SessionBeans class and wrap it
> > up in his own JFrame to webstart that one?
> >
> > We have a project under way next weeks that has to do exactly what that
> > guy is talking about.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Wim.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kenneth Pouncey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 08/06/2005 22:10
> > Please respond to
> > tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net
> >
> >
> > To
> > tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> > [Tn5250j-general] tn5250j portal
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello all
> >
> > I thought this was pretty cool:
> > http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg042005-story01.html
> >
> > Only negative part was the part of :
> >
> > >From an object-oriented perspective, the TN5250j code base is not the
> > best, but the application itself is really stable.
> >
> > But other than that nice article.
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
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