Re: Suggestion for adding a web client

On 9 Sep 98, at 13:00, Robert Laughlin wrote: > I have a semi-large application written in 4GL that runs in an RDS > environment under Sun OS 4.1.4 The user interface is text/vt100 menus > and screens using the standard 4GL features (there are a few escape to > shell thingies here and there). The application allows for retrieval, > searches, and updates of the data. I am now wanting to add support for > web clients. My thinking is to write one or more web-gateways in 4GL > which the web server would call to access the database. Before I got > started I feel the need to do a reality check to see if this is the > recommented approach. Any suggestions, pointers to downloadable code, etc > will be appreciated. We have done this quite successfully. However, you might prefer to look at the Perl DBD::Informix at the CPAN site nearest you. -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________