On 26/01/2014 1:38 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
On 1/24/2014 9:40 PM, David Crayford wrote:
I can speak from personal experience that our emerging Java-based
mainframe offerings have been well received by our customer base.
http://phoenixsoftware.com/ejes/ejes_future.htm
Nice to see a product use a browser UI and not a dreaded Eclipse
plug-in.
We love Eclipse! So do many of our customers and some have already
requested a full-featured Eclipse plug-in for (E)JES. We hope to be
able to provide them with that during "phase II" of the roll-out. We
want to give our customers what they ask for, but I think the browser
UI will be more popular since only developers use Eclipse.
My issue with most of the Eclipse PDT plug-ins I've seen in RDz is that
they are actually worse than the 3270 user interfaces that they are
attempting to replace. Not to mention that I can't run Eclipse on my
iPad, which is where I spend almost as much time as I
do on my PC these days. The desktop UI has become a second class citizen
with the rise of HTML5, Javascript and mobile devices.
Speaking of Eclipse, we've written some ANT scripts to fully
integrated Eclipse (the free one, not IBM's _expensive_ RDz) with
mainframe-resident versions of Apache Tomcat, the Java and C/C++
compilers, and GIT (for source code management). With the push of a
button, a developer can obtain a code branch from the
mainframe-resident GIT repository, build it, create a unique execution
environment on the mainframe, and interactively debug his/her code
running on the mainframe from the desktop. It's very cool (and
"cloudy") stuff!
Wow, that does sound cool! When you consider that Cloud 9 already has
250,000 user includes https://c9.io/ it does seem that in a few years
time we will all be using our browsers for everything. Maybe even 3270
emulation via websockets. HTML5 is a game changer with offline apps,
local storage, sockets, vector graphics etc.
Personally, I can't wait to have a mobile (E)JES client running on my
HTC One. Talk about a conversation starter!
It's amazing how excited the mainframe community gets about mobile z/OS
apps. With your REST API a decent web developer should be able to knock
up a Single Page Application in Javascript using something like
backbone.js. It would be pretty cool scrolling through syslog using
touch gestures. You'll be the talk of the town at SHARE!
Have you published your REST API so your customers can use it?
Not yet. The Sep 2013 deliverable was classified as a Technology
Preview. The REST API should be documented when the final rolls out.
Thanks for asking... :)
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