What is IceBreak™

Advanced Web Development Environment for IBM i™

IceBreak is a powerful Web application server that provides a highly reliable, manageable, and scalable Web application infrastructure for the IBM i™. IceBreak runs natively on IBM i™, iSeries, and AS/400 running V5R2 or higher and helps organizations increase Web site and application availability while lowering system administration costs.

It has an integrated development feature that allows developers to build and deploy Web applications using RPG, COBOL, C++ and even CLP. Technologies like SQL, XHTML, XML, Web Services, and AJAX are part of the toolbox. IceBreak allows the separation of program business logic from the user interface developed in HTML, XHTML, or XML.
No Java, No Apache, No WebSphere... Just IceBreak!

IceBreak is middleware
for IBM i™

IceBreak integrates the ILE environment into the newest Web technology, with no need for additional hardware or software. Between TCP/IP and the native i operating system - IceBreak runs RPG and COBOL programs that are real IBM i™ program objects.

IceBreak is a powerful advanced application server and does not require CGI, Java, PHP, Apache, WebSphere (WAS), PASE, WebFacing, HATS, or third-party generator tools. IceBreak is the future Web development for the ILE environment on IBM i™. View screenshots

The key aspects of IceBreak™

One of the key aspects of IceBreak is that users can develop their HTML screens in any development tool, including Visual Studio, RDi, or even a simple text editor like Notepad++. The actual HTML files are developed in the third-party HTML editor of your choice. The IceBreak development and runtime components handle the integration of HTML with the RPG or COBOL source. IceBreak actually borrows many aspects of the integrated ASP.NET-IIS development and runtime combo. "The syntax used in IceBreak, is the same as you've got in ASP and just like in .NET. IceBreak has “Just In Time” compiler technology as design is similar to way that IIS is designed.

Try sample program running online on our IBM i™. Open sample
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